The corpus record — Latin

repurgo

repurgo · v. a

to clean

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Where it lives

Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 1 · 0.79/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Naturalis Historia 10 · 0.25/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕ-purgo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-purgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

I Lit., to clean, cleanse, or clear again (not anteAug.): iter, Liv. 44, 4 fin.: alveum Tiberis, Suet. Aug. 30: ergastula, id. Tib. 8: os, mox dentes, Plin. 8, 25, 37, § 90: nomas, id. 23, 4, 38, § 78: vulnera, id. 34, 15, 46, § 155: humum, Ov. de Nuce, 125: hortum repurgare steriles herbas eligens, Curt. 4, 1, 21: repurgato fugiebant nubila caelo, Ov. M. 5, 286: serenitas caeli non recipit majorem claritatem in sincerissimum nitorem repurgata, Sen. Ep. 66, 46.—

II Transf., to purge away; to take away, remove, for the sake of cleaning: quicquid in Aeneā fuerat mortale repurgat, Ov. M. 14, 603: fetus, Plin. 8, 55, 81, § 217: aurum venis, Flor. 4, 12, 12.

In the wild

repurgetur Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.10.p1
repurgata Pliny the Younger, Letters 1.20.8
repurganda Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.11.p10
repurgandum Celsus, De Medicina 7.26.p5
repurgando Seneca, De Providentia 1.3.6
repurgarent Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.44.4.11

6 of 25 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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