polluo
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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) 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