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

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

1. (Christianity) purgatory

   Synonym: skjærsild

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

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

1. (Christianity) purgatory

   Synonym: skjærseld

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūrgātōrium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pur.ɡaˈtɔ.rjum/
• Rhymes: -ɔrjum
• Syllabification: pur‧ga‧to‧rium

Noun

purgatorium n

1. (Christianity, dated) Purgatory

   Synonym: czyściec

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

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