purgatorius

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Latin

Etymology

From pūrgō (“to cleanse”) +‎ -tōrius. Attested from about the 5th century.

Pronunciation

Adjective

pūrgātōrius (feminine pūrgātōria, neuter pūrgātōrium); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)

  1. of or related to making clean, purificatory
  2. (chiefly medicine) cleansing, purgative, purgatory
    1. (feminine) (as the name of a herb)
  3. (Christianity) cleansing the soul, the spirit

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative pūrgātōrius pūrgātōria pūrgātōrium pūrgātōriī pūrgātōriae pūrgātōria
genitive pūrgātōriī pūrgātōriae pūrgātōriī pūrgātōriōrum pūrgātōriārum pūrgātōriōrum
dative pūrgātōriō pūrgātōriae pūrgātōriō pūrgātōriīs
accusative pūrgātōrium pūrgātōriam pūrgātōrium pūrgātōriōs pūrgātōriās pūrgātōria
ablative pūrgātōriō pūrgātōriā pūrgātōriō pūrgātōriīs
vocative pūrgātōrie pūrgātōria pūrgātōrium pūrgātōriī pūrgātōriae pūrgātōria

Derived terms

Descendants

Forms reflecting /u/ may be influenced by spurcus reanalyzed as /ex-purg/. Note the interference of -ārius.

  • >? Old Occitan: porgador
  • Aragonese: porgador, porgadero (“sieve”)
  • Catalan: porgador (“a coarse sieve”)
  • Spanish: porgadero (“sieve”)

References

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