different between lustration vs lustrum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lustratio.

Noun

lustration (countable and uncountable, plural lustrations)

1. (religion) A rite of purification, especially washing.
2. (politics, law) The restoration of credibility to a government by the purging of perpetrators of crimes committed under an earlier regime.

Derived terms

• lustral, lustrical

Related terms

• lustrate

Translations

References

• Lustration in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Lustratio in A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875
• lustration at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?strum (“purificatory sacrifice performed every five years by the censor; lustration; period of five years”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?l?st??m/
• Hyphenation: lus?trum

Noun

lustrum (plural lustra or lustrums)

1. (Ancient Rome, religion, historical) A ceremonial purification of all the people, performed every five years after the taking of the census; a lustration. [from late 16th c.]
2. (by extension, literary) A period of five years.

   Synonyms: luster, lustre, quinquennium

Related terms

Translations

Notes

Further reading

• lustrum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• lustrum (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology 1

Alteration from earlier *dustrum, from Ancient Greek *??????? (*dústron) from ??? (dú?, “to plunge”).

Noun

lustrum n (genitive lustr?); second declension

1. bog, morass, place where boars and swine wallow
2. (usually in the plural) den or lair of wild beasts; wood, forest
3. (usually in the plural) (a place of) debauchery

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Synonyms

• volutabrum

Etymology 2

From Old Latin *loustrom,

• from Proto-Indo-European *lewkstrom, from *lewk- (“to make bright”) (whence l?ce?),
• or from Proto-Indo-European *lewh?strom, from *lewh?- (“to wash”) (whence lav?),
• or from Proto-Indo-European *lewHstrom, from *lewH- (“to expiate”) (whence lu?).

Noun

l?strum n (genitive l?str?); second declension

2. a purificatory sacrifice or lustration performed every five years by the censor
   1. a period of five years

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

• l?str?lis
• l?str?

Descendants

• Catalan: lustre, llustre
• English: lustrum
• Italian: lustro
• Spanish: lustro
• Portuguese: lustro

References

• lustrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lustrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lustrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lustrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• lustrum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lustrum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag