different between purification vs lustrum

English

Etymology

From Old French purificacion, from Latin purificatio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pj????f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

purification (countable and uncountable, plural purifications)

1. The act or process of purifying; the removal of impurities.
2. A religious act or rite in which a defiled person is made clean or free from sin.
3. (Christianity) The pouring of wine into the chalice to rinse it after communion, the wine being then drunk by the priest.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin p?rific?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.?i.fi.ka.sj??/

Noun

purification f (plural purifications)

1. purification

Related terms

• purifier

Further reading

• “purification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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