purgatorius
Latin
Etymology
From pūrgō (“to cleanse”) + -tōrius. Attested from about the 5th century.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /puːr.ɡaːˈtoː.ri.us/, [puːrɡäːˈt̪oːriʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pur.ɡaˈto.ri.us/, [purɡäˈt̪ɔːrius]
Adjective
pūrgātōrius (feminine pūrgātōria, neuter pūrgātōrium); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)
- of or related to making clean, purificatory
- (chiefly medicine) cleansing, purgative, purgatory
- (feminine) (as the name of a herb)
- (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), volume 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