detergent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →detergeo, detergere, detersi, detersus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
wipe/clean off/away; strip/trim/sheer/break/sweep off, rub/wipe clean; cancel;; remove, take away; break to pieces; have swept off;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- D
Satura V
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...pocula torques saucius et rubra deterges uulnera mappa, inter uos quotiens libertorumque cohortem pugna Saguntina feruet commissa lagona..." - L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...enormia, quam curiose infelices pueruli ebriorum sputa detergeant: ex his elegantiae lautitiaeque fama captatur et usque..." 
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...colis beato nec sordere sinis malumque late deterges sterilis soli pudorem; ne me pulvereum gravemque caelo Tyrrheni sinus..."