purgatorium
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See also: purgatórium
Latin
Etymology
Post-Classical substantive use of pūrgātōrius (“cleansing, purgative”), from pūrgō (“cleanse, purify”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /puːr.ɡaːˈtoː.ri.um/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pur.ɡaˈto.ri.um/,
Noun
pūrgātōrium n (genitive pūrgātōriī or pūrgātōrī); second declension
- a purgative
- act or means of cleansing
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) purgatory
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pūrgātōrium | pūrgātōria |
| Genitive | pūrgātōriī pūrgātōrī1 |
pūrgātōriōrum |
| Dative | pūrgātōriō | pūrgātōriīs |
| Accusative | pūrgātōrium | pūrgātōria |
| Ablative | pūrgātōriō | pūrgātōriīs |
| Vocative | pūrgātōrium | pūrgātōria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
Descendants
Descendants of purgatorium
- → Albanian: purgator
- → Catalan: purgatori
- → English: purgatory
- → Esperanto: purgatorio
- → French: purgatoire
- → Galician: purgatorio
- → Hungarian: purgatórium
- → Italian: purgatorio
- → Occitan: purgatòri
- → Piedmontese: purgateuri
- → Portuguese: purgatório
- → Romanian: purgatóriu
- → Sardinian: purgadoriu
- →? Sicilian: prijatoriu (+ prijari (“to pray”))
- → Spanish: purgatorio
- → Tagalog: purgatoryo
References
- purgatorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
purgatorium n (definite singular purgatoriet, indefinite plural purgatorier, definite plural purgatoria or purgatoriene)
- (Christianity) purgatory
- Synonym: skjærsild
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
purgatorium n (definite singular purgatoriet, indefinite plural purgatorium, definite plural purgatoria)
- (Christianity) purgatory
- Synonym: skjærseld
Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pūrgātōrium.
Pronunciation
Noun
purgatorium n
- (Christianity, dated) Purgatory
- Synonym: czyściec
Declension
Declension of purgatorium
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | purgatorium |
| genitive | purgatorium |
| dative | purgatorium |
| accusative | purgatorium |
| instrumental | purgatorium |
| locative | purgatorium |
| vocative | purgatorium |
Further reading
- purgatorium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- purgatorium in Polish dictionaries at PWN
M. Arcta Słownik ilustrowany języka polskiego/Purgatorium on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource pl
Romanian
Noun
purgatorium n (plural purgatoriumuri)
- Obsolete form of purgatoriu.
Declension
Declension of purgatorium
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) purgatorium | purgatoriumul | (niște) purgatoriumuri | purgatoriumurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) purgatorium | purgatoriumului | (unor) purgatoriumuri | purgatoriumurilor |
| vocative | purgatoriumule | purgatoriumurilor | ||
References
- purgatorium in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN