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Venom Snake Posted 6 years ago
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Purgatory

Hello everyone, does "purgatory" originate from "purge" ? Because it looks so similar to it.

  

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Venom SnakeHello everyone, does "purgatory" originate from "purge" ?

The two words were borrowed separately from French/Latin in Middle English. Their pedigrees are quite convoluted, but they both ultimately stem from the Latin word for "pure".

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