expurgatio

Latin

Etymology

expūrgō +‎ -tiō

Noun

expūrgātiō f (genitive expūrgātiōnis); third declension

1. justification, vindication, excuse
2. cleansing; expurgation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	expūrgātiō	expūrgātiōnēs
Genitive	expūrgātiōnis	expūrgātiōnum
Dative	expūrgātiōnī	expūrgātiōnibus
Accusative	expūrgātiōnem	expūrgātiōnēs
Ablative	expūrgātiōne	expūrgātiōnibus
Vocative	expūrgātiō	expūrgātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: expurgació
• English: expurgation
• French: expurgation
• Galician: expurgación
• Italian: espurgazione
• Portuguese: expurgação
• Spanish: expurgación

References

• “expurgatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• expurgatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.