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Latin
Etymology
From ab- (“away from”) + tergeō (“rub or wipe off, cleanse”).
Pronunciation
Verb
abstergeō (present infinitive abstergēre, perfect active abstersī, supine abstersum); second conjugation
- to wipe off or away; dry by wiping
- Synonyms: tergeō, luō, pūrgō, putō, effingō
- Antonyms: inquinō, polluō, maculō, scelerō, contingō
- (figuratively) to wipe away, drive away, banish, expel, dispel
Conjugation
- In surviving Classical sources, the passive voice is limited to the third-person forms.
Descendants
References
- “abstergeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abstergeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abstergeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to banish all sad thoughts: omnem luctum plane abstergere