detergeres
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;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Casina
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...perii. Manufesto miser teneor. cesso caput pallio detergere? Vt te bonus Mercurius perdat, myropola, quia haec mihi dedisti..."Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...pluribus navibus adoriri singulas aut remos transcurrentes detergere, si possent, contendebant; cum propius erat necessario ventum, ab scientia..."