pollutio

Latin

Etymology

From polluō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

pollūtiō f (genitive pollūtiōnis); third declension

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

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.

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