purgatorium
See also: purgatórium
Latin
Etymology
Post-Classical substantive use of pūrgātōrius (“cleansing, purgative”), from pūrgō (“cleanse, purify”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /puːr.ɡaːˈtoː.ri.um/, [puːrɡäːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pur.ɡaˈto.ri.um/, [purɡäˈt̪ɔːrium]
Noun
pūrgātōrium n (genitive pūrgātōriī or pūrgātōrī); second declension
- a purgative
- act or means of cleansing
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) purgatory
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
- pūrgābilis
- pūrgāmen
- pūrgāmentum
- pūrgātiō
- pūrgātor
- pūrgātrīx
- pūrgātus
- pūrgātē
- pūrgātīvus
- pūrgātōrius
- pūrgō
Descendants
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
- 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
- IPA(key): /pur.ɡaˈtɔ.rjum/
- Rhymes: -ɔrjum
- Syllabification: pur‧ga‧to‧rium
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
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
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