Where does “purgatorie” come from?
purgatorie (Middle English) comes from Old French purgatore, from Latin pūrgātōrium, from Latin purgātōrius, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
Ancestry of “purgatorie”, step by step