contaminatio
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔn.taː.mɪˈnaː.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kon̪.t̪a.miˈnat̪.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
contāminātiō f (genitive contāminātiōnis); third declension
- contamination, pollution
- defilement
- Synonym: pollūtiō
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | contāminātiō | contāminātiōnēs |
| genitive | contāminātiōnis | contāminātiōnum |
| dative | contāminātiōnī | contāminātiōnibus |
| accusative | contāminātiōnem | contāminātiōnēs |
| ablative | contāminātiōne | contāminātiōnibus |
| vocative | contāminātiō | contāminātiōnēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: contaminació
- → Dutch: contaminatie
- → English: contamination
- → French: contamination
- → Galician: contaminación
- → German: Kontamination
- → Italian: contaminazione
- → Occitan: contaminacion
- → Portuguese: contaminação
- → Romanian: contaminație
- → Russian: контаминация (kontaminacija)
- → Spanish: contaminación
References
- “contaminatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "contaminatio", 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)
- contaminatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “contaminatio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers