impurus - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From in- + pūrus (“pure; chaste”).
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /imˈpuː.rus/, [ɪmˈpuːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /imˈpu.rus/, [imˈpuːrus]
impūrus (feminine impūra, neuter impūrum, comparative impūrior, superlative impūrissimus, adverb impūrē); first/second-declension adjective
- unclean, filthy, foul, dirty
- (figuratively, in a moral sense) impure, defiled, filthy, infamous, vile
First/second-declension adjective.
- (impure): adulter, adulterīnus, cinaedicus, immundus, impudīcus, incestus, profānus
- (antonym(s) of “impure”): castus, immaculātus, incorruptus, intemerātus, pudīcus, pūrus, pūtus, absolutus
- “impurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “impurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- impurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.