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Latin
Etymology
From ex- + tergeō (“rub or wipe off, cleanse”).
Pronunciation
Verb
extergeō (present infinitive extergēre, perfect active extersī, supine extersum); second conjugation
- to wipe out, off or away; wipe dry, clean
- to strip clean, plunder, scour
Conjugation
- In surviving Classical sources, the passive voice is limited to the third-person forms.
References
- “extergeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “extergeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- extergeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.