pollutio

Latin

Etymology

From polluō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

pollūtiō f (genitive pollūtiōnis); third declension

1. pollution, contamination, defilement

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pollūtiō	pollūtiōnēs
genitive	pollūtiōnis	pollūtiōnum
dative	pollūtiōnī	pollūtiōnibus
accusative	pollūtiōnem	pollūtiōnēs
ablative	pollūtiōne	pollūtiōnibus
vocative	pollūtiō	pollūtiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: pol·lució
• → English: pollution
• French: pollution
• Galician: polución
• Italian: polluzione
• → Polish: polucja
• Portuguese: polução, poluição
• Romanian: poluție
• Spanish: polución

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.