purificatio

Latin

Etymology

From pūrificō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /puː.ri.fiˈkaː.ti.oː/, [puːrɪfɪˈkäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pu.ri.fiˈkat.t͡si.o/, [purifiˈkät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

pūrificātiō f (genitive pūrificātiōnis); third declension

1. purification

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pūrificātiō	pūrificātiōnēs
Genitive	pūrificātiōnis	pūrificātiōnum
Dative	pūrificātiōnī	pūrificātiōnibus
Accusative	pūrificātiōnem	pūrificātiōnēs
Ablative	pūrificātiōne	pūrificātiōnibus
Vocative	pūrificātiō	pūrificātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: purificació
• French: purification
• Friulian: purificazion
• Galician: purificación
• Italian: purificazione
• Occitan: purificacion
• Piedmontese: purificassion
• Portuguese: purificação
• Romanian: purificație
• Spanish: purificación

References

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