The corpus record — Latin

abstergeo

abstergeo · v. a

abstergo

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Where it lives

De Consolatione ad Helviam 2 · 2.96/10k
Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
De Ira 2 · 0.9/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 1 · 0.57/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 1 · 0.5/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 3 · 0.4/10k
Philippicae 2 · 0.38/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

abs-tergĕo — Lewis & Short

abs-tergĕo, rsi, rsum, 2, v. a. (the form

I abstergo, gĕre rests upon spurious readings, except in eccl. Lat., as Vulg. Apoc. 21, 4), to wipe off or away, to dry by wiping.

I Lit.: labellum, Plaut. As. 4, 1, 52: sudorem, id. Men. 1, 2, 16: vulnera, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 9: lacrimas, Lucil. ap. Porphyr. ad Hor. S. 1, 2, 68: fletum, Cic. Phil. 14, 34: everrite aedīs, abstergete araneas, brush away, Titin. ap. Non. 192, 10.— *

B Transf.: remos (qs. to wipe away, i. e.), to break, to dash to pieces, Curt. 9, 9, 16.—

II Trop., to wipe away (any thing disagreeable, a passion, etc.), i. e. to drive away, expel, remove, banish: ut mihi absterserunt omnem sorditudinem, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 10; esp. freq. in Cic.: dolorem, Q. Fr. 2, 9: senectutis molestias, Sen. 1: metum, Fam. 9, 16; luctum, Tusc. 3, 18: suspicionem, Amm. 14, 11.

In the wild

abstersis Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 5.5.8
absterge Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 2.453
absterseris Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.43
absterget Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.7.p2
abstersa Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.4
abstersisses Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 11.24.1

6 of 38 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.