purgatorium

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

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

pūrgātōrium n (genitive pūrgātōriī or pūrgātōrī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• 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)

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

1. (Christianity) purgatory

   Synonym: skjærsild

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

1. (Christianity) purgatory

   Synonym: skjærseld

Learned borrowing from Latin pūrgātōrium.

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

purgatorium n

1. (Christianity, dated) Purgatory

   Synonym: czyściec

• 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

purgatorium n (plural purgatoriumuri)

1. Obsolete form of purgatoriu.

• purgatorium in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN