The corpus record — Latin

tersus2

Part. of tergeo

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Where it lives

Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

1. tersus — Lewis & Short

tersus, a, um,

Part. of tergeo.

2. tersus — Lewis & Short

tersus, ūs, m.tergeo,

I a wiping off, cleansing (Appuleian): lintea tersui profer, App. M. 1, p. 113, 2: tersui dentium petere aliquid, i.e. for tooth-powder, id. Mag. p. 277, 2.

In the wild

tersui Apuleius, Apologia 6
tersui Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.7.p2
tersus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.93
tersum Pliny the Younger, Letters 9.22.2
tersum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.10.50
tersui Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.23

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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