🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

incontaminado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ĩ.kõ.ta.miˈna.du

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Uncontaminated/ˌʌnkənˈtæmɪneɪtɪd/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Precisamos garantir que o suprimento de água permaneça incontaminado."

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Not tainted, polluted, or poisoned by contact with hazardous substances or foreign matter.

    "The survival team searched desperately for a source of uncontaminated water."
  2. 2

    Remaining pure, uncorrupted, or free from outside negative influences.

    "She maintained an uncontaminated perspective despite the cynical environment."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the prefix un- (meaning 'not') combined with uncontaminated, stemming from the Latin contaminatus, past participle of contaminare ('to defile, pollute'), from contamen ('pollution'). The term evolved in Late Middle English and Renaissance scientific contexts to describe purity and the absence of foreign or harmful elements.

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