expurgatio

Latin

Etymology

expūrgō +‎ -tiō

Noun

expūrgātiō f (genitive expūrgātiōnis); third declension

  1. justification, vindication, excuse
  2. cleansing; expurgation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative expūrgātiō expūrgātiōnēs
genitive expūrgātiōnis expūrgātiōnum
dative expūrgātiōnī expūrgātiōnibus
accusative expūrgātiōnem expūrgātiōnēs
ablative expūrgātiōne expūrgātiōnibus
vocative expūrgātiō expūrgātiōnēs

Descendants

  • Catalan: expurgació
  • English: expurgation
  • French: expurgation
  • Galician: expurgación
  • Italian: espurgazione
  • Portuguese: expurgação
  • Spanish: expurgación

References

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