polluo

== Latin == === Etymology === From por- +‎ Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“dirt, mud”) (compare luēs (“plague”); cognate with λῦμα (lûma, “dirt”) and Old Irish loth (“mud”)). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɔl.lu.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpɔl.lu.o] === Verb === polluō (present infinitive polluere, perfect active polluī, supine pollūtum); third conjugation to soil, defile, pollute, stain, foul Synonyms: collinō, commaculō, commingō, cōnspurcō, contāminō, contemerō, foedō, incestō, inquinō, maculō, scelerō, contingō Antonyms: tergeō, abstergeō, pūrgō, lavō, effingō, putō (figuratively, morally) to contaminate, violate, dishonor, desecrate, pollute, defile Synonyms: cōnscelerō, contāminō, dēdecorō, dehonestō, dēpudicō, foedō, maculō, temerō, turpō ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “polluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “polluo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “polluo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.