abstergeo Latin · revision 33798

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *terg-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [apˈstɛr.ɡe.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [abˈstɛr.d͡ʒe.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''abstergeō''' (present infinitive abstergēre, perfect active abstersī, supine abstersum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''apstergeō'', and a third-conjugation ''abstergō'' is found in Church Latin.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ab-|tergeō|t1=away|t2=to wipe, rub clean]], with the prefix in the form ⟨abs-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|tergeō]] to [[itc-pro|*terg-]] and finds no certain cognates.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first: in the ''Asinaria'' a woman should wipe her lips clean rather than kiss anyone openly, and in the ''Mercator'' someone is told to wipe off his sweat.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to clean by wiping and to wipe something off: Lucilius has wiping away tears, and Terence wiping wounds.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Curtius uses it of oars stripped off as ships crashed together.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is to banish a feeling, as Cicero wants to wipe the fear from a friend's mind.^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that ''abstergeō'' is the older form;^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short find ''abstergō'' only in spurious readings and in Church Latin, as in the Vulgate's Apocalypse.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Stelten gives “blot out, wipe away”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of wiping lips and sweat.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius, of wiping away tears.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of banishing fear.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate, in the form ''abstergō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To clean by [[m|en|wipe|alt=wiping]], wipe clean; to dry by wiping.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To wipe off or away (sweat, tears); to strip off.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|banish]], [[m|en|dispel]] (feelings).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dētergeō]]

+ * [[extergeō]]

+ * [[pertergeō]]

+ * [[tergeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}