Detergeo, deterges: vel Detergo, derergis, detersi, detersum, derergêre vel detérgere, Idem quod Tergere. Plau. To wipe off: to make cleane: to sroure.Fletus detergunt stamine. Claud. Lachrymas detergere.Ouid.To wipe away teares. Derergere per translationem: vt, Detergere fastidia, pro Auserre. Col. To take away loathsomnesse.Somuum detergere pollice. Claud. To rubbe his eies that he may waken himselfe.Detergere gemmas. Col. To rubbe off the buddes of a vine.Detergere spurcitias. Col. To scoure away.Nubìla detersa radijs. Claud. Cloudes put away with.Detergere numerÛ aliquÊ Ci.To put out or rase a number. Remos detergere, Cæs.To cut off the oares.Rubigo detersa. Sil. Rust scoured off.Detergere sermenta de arboribus putatis & vineis. Cat. To cut graffes from trees.Detergere palmites. Col. To cut off.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dē-tergĕo, si, sum, 2 (also post-class.: detergis, Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 191: detergunt, id. ap. Eutr. 2, 375: detergantur, Dig. 33, 7, 12, 21; Ap. Mag. 59, p. 312, 26; Sen. Ep. 47, 4, v. tergeo), v. a.I.To wipe off, wipe away (class.). A.Lit.: sudorem frontis brachio, Suet. Ner. 23; cf.: lacrimas pollice, Ov. M. 13, 746; cf.: teneros fletus stamine, Claud. in Eutr. 2, 375: araneas, Dig. 33, 7, 12, 21.—Poet.: nubila, i. e.
to drive away, remove
, Hor. Od. 1, 7, 15; cf. sidera, to drive or chase away, Cic. Arat. 246.—2.Transf., to cleanse by wiping, to wipe off, wipe clean, to clean out: caput pallio, Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 20: labra spongiā, Col. 6, 9, 2; cf.: se linguā, id. 6, 6, 1: frontem unguento, Petr. 47, 1: falces fibrina pelle, Plin. 17, 28, 47, 265: cloacas, Liv. 39, 44; cf. Suet. Aug. 18.—Comic: mensam, i. e.
to clear, to empty
, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 2.—B.Trop.1.To take away, remove: fastidia, Col. 8, 10, 5: somnum, Claud. Epith. Pall. et Cel. 27.—2.To cleanse, purge: animum helleboro, Petr. 88, 4; secula foedo victu, Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 1, 191.—3. In colloq. lang., of money: primo anno LXXX. detersimus,
have swept off, got
, Cic. Att. 14, 10, 6.—II.To strip off, break off; to break to pieces: remos, Caes. B. C. 1, 58; Liv. 28, 30 fin.: pinnas asseribus falcatis, id. 38, 5: palmites, Col. 4, 27 fin.