detersit
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. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...minimum secum ex corpore tulit, si sordidum omne detersit, et expeditus leuisque ac contentus modico emicuit. Cum illa..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...deformi faceret quaesivi. [VIII] Sudorem ille manibus detersit et: "Si scires, inquit, quae mihi acciderunt. — Quid novi?" inquam..."
Liber Sextus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...pius Alcides Pelopi certauit honorem puluereumque fera crinem detersit oliua; proxima uipereo celebratur libera nexu Phocis, Apollineae bellum..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Rhodii, tractum ancorale et implicitum remis latus alterum detersit; debilitatam ea ipsa, quae icta cohaeserat nauis cepit..."Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...triremes suppressit, unius, praelata impetu, lateris alterius remos detersit; ceterasque quas indepta esset mulcasset, ni cum reliquis quinque..."