Latin

Verb

dētergeō ‎(present infinitive dētergēre, perfect active dētersī, supine dētersum); second conjugation

1. I wipe off, wipe away, clean by wiping.
2. (figuratively) I chase away, drive away, remove.
3. I strip off, break off.

Inflection

• In surviving Classical sources, the passive voice is limited to the third-person forms.

Derived terms

• dētersiō
• dētersus

Related terms

Descendants

• Italian: detergere
• Spanish: deterger

References

• detergeo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• detergeo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “detergeo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.