purgatorium
See also: purgatórium
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Post-Classical substantive use of pūrgātōrius (“cleansing, purgative”), from pūrgō (“cleanse, purify”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /puːr.ɡaːˈtoː.ri.um/, [puːrɡäːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pur.ɡaˈto.ri.um/, [purɡäˈt̪ɔːrium]
Noun edit
pūrgātōrium n (genitive pūrgātōriī or pūrgātōrī); second declension
- a purgative
- act or means of cleansing
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) purgatory
Declension edit
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 edit
Descendants edit
Descendants of purgatorium in other languages
- → 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 edit
- 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 edit
Noun edit
purgatorium n (definite singular purgatoriet, indefinite plural purgatorier, definite plural purgatoria or purgatoriene)
- (Christianity) purgatory
- Synonym: skjærsild
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
purgatorium n (definite singular purgatoriet, indefinite plural purgatorium, definite plural purgatoria)
- (Christianity) purgatory
- Synonym: skjærseld
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin pūrgātōrium.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
purgatorium n
- (Christianity, dated) Purgatory
- Synonym: czyściec
Declension edit
Declension of purgatorium
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | purgatorium |
| genitive | purgatorium |
| dative | purgatorium |
| accusative | purgatorium |
| instrumental | purgatorium |
| locative | purgatorium |
| vocative | purgatorium |
Further reading edit
- 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 edit
Noun edit
purgatorium n (plural purgatoriumuri)
- Obsolete form of purgatoriu.
Declension edit
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 edit
- purgatorium in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN