polluo
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From por- + Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“dirt, mud”) (compare luēs (“plague”); cognate with λῦμα (lûma, “dirt”) and Old Irish loth (“mud”)).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpol.lu.oː/, [ˈpɔlːʲuoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpol.lu.o/, [ˈpɔlːuo]
Verb
[edit]polluō (present infinitive polluere, perfect active polluī, supine pollūtum); third conjugation
- to soil, defile, pollute, stain, foul
- (figuratively, morally) to contaminate, violate, dishonor, desecrate, pollute, defile
Conjugation
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- (dishonor): cōnscelerō, contāminō, dēdecorō, dehonestō, dēpudicō, foedō, maculō, temerō, turpō
- (pollute): collinō, commaculō, commingō, cōnspurcō, contāminō, contemerō, foedō, incestō, inquinō, maculō, scelerō, contingō
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: pol·luir
- → English: pollute
- → French: polluer
- → Italian: polluire
- → Portuguese: poluir
- → Romanian: polua
- → Spanish: poluir
References
[edit]- “polluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “polluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- polluo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to profane sacred rites: sacra polluere et violare
- to profane sacred rites: sacra polluere et violare