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
- I wipe off, wipe away, clean by wiping.
- (figuratively) I chase away, drive away, remove.
- 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
Related terms
- abstergeō
- circumtergeō
- extergeō
- pertergeō
- retergeō
- tergeō
Descendants
- English: deterge
- French: déterger
- Italian: detergere
- Spanish: deterger
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