purgatorio

See also: purgatório

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian purgatorio, from Late Latin purgatorium (“cleansing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [purɡatoˈrio]
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: pur‧ga‧to‧ri‧o

Noun

purgatorio (accusative singular purgatorion, plural purgatorioj, accusative plural purgatoriojn)

1. (Christianity) purgatory

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin pūrgātōrium (“cleansing”).

Noun

purgatorio m (plural purgatorios)

1. (Christianity) purgatory

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin pūrgātōrium (“cleansing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pur.ɡaˈtɔ.rjo/
• Rhymes: -ɔrjo
• Hyphenation: pur‧ga‧tò‧rio

Adjective

purgatorio (feminine purgatoria, masculine plural purgatori, feminine plural purgatorie)

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   Synonyms: espiatorio, purificatorio

Noun

purgatorio m (plural purgatori)

1. (Christianity, also figuratively) purgatory

Further reading

• purgatorio in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• purgatorio in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• purgatorio in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• purgatorio in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• purgatòrio in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /puːr.ɡaːˈtoː.ri.oː/, [puːrɡäːˈt̪oːrioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pur.ɡaˈto.ri.o/, [purɡäˈt̪ɔːrio]

Noun

pūrgātōriō

1. dative/ablative singular of pūrgātōrium

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin pūrgātōrium (“cleansing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puɾɡaˈtoɾjo/ [puɾ.ɣ̞aˈt̪o.ɾjo]
• Rhymes: -oɾjo
• Syllabification: pur‧ga‧to‧rio

Adjective

purgatorio (feminine purgatoria, masculine plural purgatorios, feminine plural purgatorias)

1. Synonym of purgativo

Noun

purgatorio m (uncountable)

1. (Christianity) purgatory

Descendants

• → Cebuano: purgatoryo
• → Tagalog: purgatoryo

Further reading

• “purgatorio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014