detergeo

Latin

Etymology

From dē- (off) + tergeō (wipe, polish), tergō.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /deːˈter.ɡe.oː/, [deːˈtɛr.ɡe.oː]

Verb

dētergeō (present infinitive dētergēre, perfect active dētersī, supine dētersum); second conjugation, no passive

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

Conjugation

  • In surviving Classical sources, the passive voice is limited to the third-person forms.
   Conjugation of dētergeō (second conjugation, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present dētergeō dētergēs dēterget dētergēmus dētergētis dētergent
imperfect dētergēbam dētergēbās dētergēbat dētergēbāmus dētergēbātis dētergēbant
future dētergēbō dētergēbis dētergēbit dētergēbimus dētergēbitis dētergēbunt
perfect dētersī dētersistī dētersit dētersimus dētersistis dētersērunt, dētersēre
pluperfect dēterseram dēterserās dēterserat dēterserāmus dēterserātis dēterserant
future perfect dēterserō dēterseris dēterserit dēterserimus dēterseritis dēterserint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present dētergeam dētergeās dētergeat dētergeāmus dētergeātis dētergeant
imperfect dētergērem dētergērēs dētergēret dētergērēmus dētergērētis dētergērent
perfect dēterserim dēterserīs dēterserit dēterserīmus dēterserītis dēterserint
pluperfect dētersissem dētersissēs dētersisset dētersissēmus dētersissētis dētersissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present dētergē dētergēte
future dētergētō dētergētō dētergētōte dētergentō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives dētergēre dētersisse dētersūrus esse
participles dētergēns dētersūrus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
dētergendī dētergendō dētergendum dētergendō dētersum dētersū

Derived terms

  • dētersiō
  • dētersus

Descendants

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
  • detergeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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