lustrum
English
/ˈlʌstɹəm/
noun
Definitions
- (Ancient Rome) A ceremonial purification of all the people, performed every five years after the taking of the census; a lustration.
- (by extension) A period of five years.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lūstrum (sacrifice, lustration, purificatory sacrifice performed every five years by the censor, period of five years, a purificatory sacrifice) root from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (wash, bathe, cut off, separate).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*lewh₃-
Gloss
wash, bathe, cut off, separate
Concept
Semantic Field
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Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ablute English
- antediluvian English
- dissoluble English
- eluent English
- elution English
- exolve English
- latrine English
- resolute English
- solve English
- abluo Latin
- abluēns Latin
- ablūtiō Latin
- absolvere Latin
- absolvo Latin
- absolūtiōnem Latin
- alluvio Latin
- diluo Latin
- diluvium Latin
- dissolutus Latin
- dissolvere, dissolvo Latin
- dissolvo Latin
- dissolvēns Latin
- dissolūtiō Latin
- dīluvium Latin
- dīlūtus Latin
- eluo Latin
- exsolvo Latin
- latrina Latin
- lavabrum Latin
- lavandaria Latin
- lavāre Latin
- lavō Latin
- lomentum Latin
- lora Latin
- luo Latin
- lustro Latin
- lūstrum Latin
- lūstrō Latin
- persolvo Latin
- re- Latin
- resolvo Latin
- resolvō Latin
- resolūtiō Latin
- solutio Latin
- solutus Latin
- solvo Latin
- solūtiōnem Latin
- ēlūtus Latin
- lustre French
- λούω Ancient Greek
- λύθρον Ancient Greek
- *lewh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- *léwh₃eti Proto-Indo-European
- *léwh₃trom, *lówh₃trom Proto-Indo-European
- *plew- Proto-Indo-European
- *laugō Proto-Germanic
- lýja Old Norse
- absolu Old French
- llustre Catalan, Valencian
- լոգանամ Old Armenian
- *lowentenā Proto-Celtic
- *lowkstriko- Proto-Celtic
- *lowkstro- Proto-Celtic
- *lawaō Proto-Italic
- *lau- Proto-Albanian
- lavâse Ligurian