purgatorium

purgatorium

See also: purgatórium

Latin

Etymology

Post-Classical substantive use of purgātōrius (“cleansing, purgative”), from purgō (“cleanse, purify”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /puːr.ɡaːˈtoː.ri.um/, [puːrɡäːˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pur.ɡaˈto.ri.um/, [purɡäˈt̪ɔːrium]

Noun

pūrgātōrium n (genitive pūrgātōriī or pūrgātōrī); second declension

1. a purgative
2. act or means of cleansing
3. (Ecclesiastical) purgatory

Declension

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

• pūrgābilis
• pūrgāmen
• pūrgāmentum
• pūrgātē
• pūrgātiō
• pūrgātīvus
• pūrgātor
• pūrgātōrius
• pūrgātrīx
• pūrgātus
• 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)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

purgatorium n (definite singular purgatoriet, indefinite plural purgatorier, definite plural purgatoria or purgatoriene)

1. (Christianity) purgatory

   Synonym: skjærsild

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

purgatorium n (definite singular purgatoriet, indefinite plural purgatorium, definite plural purgatoria)

1. (Christianity) purgatory

   Synonym: skjærseld

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Romanian

Noun

purgatorium n (plural purgatoriumuri)

1. Obsolete form of purgatoriu.

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