purgatorius

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /puːr.ɡaːˈtoː.ri.us/, [puːrɡäːˈt̪oːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pur.ɡaˈto.ri.us/, [purɡäˈt̪ɔːrius]

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.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	pūrgātōrius	pūrgātōria	pūrgātōrium		pūrgātōriī	pūrgātōriae	pūrgātōria
Genitive	pūrgātōriī	pūrgātōriae	pūrgātōriī		pūrgātōriōrum	pūrgātōriārum	pūrgātōriōrum
Dative	pūrgātōriō		pūrgātōriō		pūrgātōriīs
Accusative	pūrgātōrium	pūrgātōriam	pūrgātōrium		pūrgātōriōs	pūrgātōriās	pūrgātōria
Ablative	pūrgātōriō	pūrgātōriā	pūrgātōriō		pūrgātōriīs
Vocative	pūrgātōrie	pūrgātōria	pūrgātōrium		pūrgātōriī	pūrgātōriae	pūrgātōria

Derived terms

• pūrgātōrium

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

• “pūrgātōrius” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “purgatorius”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 615
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “pŭrgāre”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 514

Further reading

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