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κᾰθαρ-εύω

kathareuo

3) καθαρεύω sêtre propre, pur, nettoyé» (PL, etc

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1. καθαρεύω · kathareuō — Chantraine

3) καθαρεύω sêtre propre, pur, nettoyé» (PL, etc.) avec le doublet καθαριεύῳ (méd., gramm.) et καθάρευσις (Hsch., EM) ; 4) Présent factitif au passif καθαριόομαι « être purifié » (LXX). — [Chantraine, s.v. καθαρεύω, p. 493]

2. κᾰθαρ-εύω · kathar-euō — LSJ

to be clean, pure, sifted, to be clean, free from, to be free from, to be pure, clean

to be clean or pure, Pl. Phd. 58b, Lg. 759c, Phld. Lib. p.9O., Porph. Abst. 4.6; of sifted grain, PPetr. 2p.2 (iii B.C.): c. gen., to be clean or free from, φόνου Pl. Ep. 357a; [κακιῶν] Phld. Rh. 1.218S.; ἁμαρτημάτων Plu. Cat.Mi. 24; ὀνείδους Luc. Am. 22; κ. πυρετοῦ to be free from fever, Gal. 7.503: hence ἡμέραι -εύουσαι ibid.; κ. ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ (sc. τοῦ σώματος) Pl. Phd. 67a; κ. γνώμῃ to be pure or clean in mind, Ar. Ra. 355; περί τι Plb. 6.56.15.

2 to be pure, correct, purists

Rhet., of a writer, to be pure, correct in language, κ. τὴν διάλεκτον D.H. Lys. 2; οἱ καθαρεύοντες purists, Hdn.Gr. 2.224.

3 to be preceded by a vowel, to be ‘pure’, contain a ‘pure’ syllable

Gramm., to be preceded by a vowel, to be ‘pure’ (cf. καθαρός 1.5b), A.D. Pron. 99.24, Theodos. Can. p.70H.; contain a ‘pure’ syllable, Hdn.Gr. 2.923, Id. ap. Eust. 1859.13.

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