contaminatio

Latin

Etymology

From contāminō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kon.taː.miˈnaː.ti.oː/, [kɔn̪t̪äːmɪˈnäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon.ta.miˈnat.t͡si.o/, [kon̪t̪ämiˈnät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

contāminātiō f (genitive contāminātiōnis); third declension

1. contamination, pollution

   Synonyms: contāctus, contāgium, pollūtiō

2. defilement

   Synonym: pollūtiō

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	contāminātiō	contāminātiōnēs
Genitive	contāminātiōnis	contāminātiōnum
Dative	contāminātiōnī	contāminātiōnibus
Accusative	contāminātiōnem	contāminātiōnēs
Ablative	contāminātiōne	contāminātiōnibus
Vocative	contāminātiō	contāminātiōnēs

Related terms

• contāminō

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