pollutio

Latin

Etymology

From polluō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

pollūtiō f (genitive pollūtiōnis); third declension

1. pollution, contamination, defilement

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pollūtiō	pollūtiōnēs
Genitive	pollūtiōnis	pollūtiōnum
Dative	pollūtiōnī	pollūtiōnibus
Accusative	pollūtiōnem	pollūtiōnēs
Ablative	pollūtiōne	pollūtiōnibus
Vocative	pollūtiō	pollūtiōnēs

Descendants

• Portuguese: polução, poluição
• → English: pollution

References

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