detergeo

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

  • In surviving Classical sources, the passive voice is limited to the third-person forms.
   Conjugation of dētergeō (second conjugation, only third-person forms in passive)
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
passive present dētergētur dētergentur
imperfect dētergēbātur dētergēbantur
future dētergēbitur dētergēbuntur
perfect dētersus est dētersī sunt
pluperfect dētersus erat dētersī erant
future perfect dētersus erit dētersī erunt
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
passive present dētergeātur dētergeantur
imperfect dētergērētur dētergērentur
perfect dētersus sit dētersī sint
pluperfect dētersus esset,
dētersus foret
dētersī essent,
dētersī forent
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 dētersūrum esse dētergērī dētersum esse dētersum īrī
participles dētergēns dētersūrus dētersus dētergendus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
dētergendī dētergendō dētergendum dētergendō dētersum dētersū

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: detergir
  • English: deterge
  • Middle French: deterger
  • Galician: deterxer
  • Italian: detergere
  • Spanish: deterger
  • Portuguese: detergir

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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