purgatoire
Appearance
See also: Purgatoire
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Medieval Latin pūrgātōrium (“cleansing”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pyʁ.ɡa.twaʁ/
Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)): (file) Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file)
Noun
[edit]purgatoire m (plural purgatoires)
- purgatory (stage of the afterlife in Catholic theology)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “purgatoire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]purgatoire
- alternative form of purgatorie
Noun
[edit]purgatoire
- alternative form of purgatorie
