ablutio
Latin
Etymology
From abluō (“I wash off, cleanse”), from ab (“from, away from”) + luō (“I wash, cleanse”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /abˈluː.ti.oː/, [äbˈɫ̪uːt̪ioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈlut.t͡si.o/, [äbˈlut̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
ablūtiō f (genitive ablūtiōnis); third declension
- washing, cleansing, ablution
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ablūtiō | ablūtiōnēs |
Genitive | ablūtiōnis | ablūtiōnum |
Dative | ablūtiōnī | ablūtiōnibus |
Accusative | ablūtiōnem | ablūtiōnēs |
Ablative | ablūtiōne | ablūtiōnibus |
Vocative | ablūtiō | ablūtiōnēs |
Synonyms
- (washing, ablution): baptisma
Related terms
- abluēns
- abluō
- ablūtor
- ablūtus
- abluvium
Descendants
- Catalan: ablució
- French: ablution
- Galician: ablución
- Italian: abluzione
- → Old French: ablution
- → Middle English: ablucioun
- English: ablution
- → Middle English: ablucioun
- Norwegian Bokmål: ablusjon
- Portuguese: ablução
- Spanish: ablución
References
- “ablutio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ablutio 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)
- ablutio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette