immaculate

English

Etymology

From Latin immaculātus; prefix im- (“not”) + maculātus, perfect passive participle of maculō (“spot, stain”), from macula (“spot”). Middle English immaculat. See mail armor.

Displaced native Old English unwemmed (“pure, untainted”).

Adjective

immaculate (comparative more immaculate, superlative most immaculate)

1. Having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure.

   Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate. — Sir John Denham

   Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. — Shakespeare, Richard II, V-iii.

Synonyms

• spotless
• undefiled
• unsullied

Derived terms

• Immaculate conception
• immaculately
• immaculateness

Translations

having no stain or blemish, spotless, undefiled, clear, pure

• Armenian: անարատ (hy) (anarat) 
• Czech: neposkvrněný (cs) m
• Danish: pletfri (da)
• Dutch: vlekkeloos (nl)
• Finnish: virheetön (fi)
• French: immaculé (fr)
• German: makellos (de)

• Greek: άσπιλος (el) (áspilos) m , άψογος (el) (ápsogos) m , αψεγάδιαστος (el) (ápsegadiastos) m 
• Hungarian: szeplőtlen (hu), szeplőtelen (hu), makulátlan (hu), tiszta (hu)
• Italian: immacolato (it)
• Romanian: imaculat (ro) m, imaculată (ro) f
• Swedish: obefläckad (sv), fläckfri (sv)

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Latin

Participle

immaculāte

1. vocative masculine singular of immaculātus