ablutio

Latin

Etymology

From abluō (“I wash off, cleanse”) +‎ -tiō, from ab (“from, away from”) + luō (“I wash, cleanse”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /abˈluː.ti.oː/, [äbˈɫ̪uːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /abˈlut.t͡si.o/, [äbˈlut̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

ablūtiō f (genitive ablūtiōnis); third declension

1. washing, cleansing, ablution

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ablūtiō	ablūtiōnēs
Genitive	ablūtiōnis	ablūtiōnum
Dative	ablūtiōnī	ablūtiōnibus
Accusative	ablūtiōnem	ablūtiōnēs
Ablative	ablūtiōne	ablūtiōnibus
Vocative	ablūtiō	ablūtiōnēs

Synonyms

• (washing, ablution): baptisma

Related terms

• abluēns
• abluō
• ablūtor
• ablūtus
• abluvium

Descendants

• Catalan: ablució
• French: ablution
• Galician: ablución
• Italian: abluzione
• → Old French: ablution
  • → Middle English: ablucioun
    • English: ablution
• Norwegian Bokmål: ablusjon
• Portuguese: ablução
• Romanian: abluțiune
• Spanish: ablución

References

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