The corpus record — Latin

ablutio

ablutio · f

a washing

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Where it lives

Oratio Consulis Ausonii Versibus Rhopalicis 1 · 47.39/10k
De Baptismo 2 · 4.68/10k

What it meant

ablūtĭo — Lewis & Short

ablūtĭo, ōnis, f.abluo,

I a washing, cleansing, Macr. S. 3, 7.—Of baptism, cf. abluo, I. fin. (eccl. Lat.; in Plin. 13, 12, 23, § 74, the correct reading is adulatione; v. Sillig ad h. l.).

In the wild

ablutio Ausonius, Oratio Consulis Ausonii Versibus Rhopalicis 3.19
ablutione Tertullian, De Baptismo 6
ablutionem Tertullian, De Baptismo 5

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.