ablutio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ablūtĭo, ōnis, f. [abluo],

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.).