extergeo Latin · revision 34656

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la tergeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''extergeō''' (present infinitive extergēre, perfect active extersī, supine extersum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|tergeō|t2=to wipe, rub clean]].^(OLD 2012)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists it among the compounds of [[m|la|tergeō]], for which he reconstructs [[itc-pro|*terg-]] but finds no certain cognates outside Italic.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan finds it from Plautus on,^(de Vaan 2008) who has ''exterge tibi manūs'' “wipe your hands clean”.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to [[m|en|wipe]] or rub clean, to scrub or scour: Cato tells the reader to wipe something well with a sponge,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) and Vitruvius uses it of garlands.^(Georges 1913) Petronius has the sense to wipe away, of tears wiped off with the thumb.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Cicero uses it jokingly in the Verrines, asking which shrine was not left swept clean, that is, plundered.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Lewis and Short call it mostly ante- and post-classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Beside the second-conjugation verb a third-conjugation present ''extergō'' is found, in Columella, the Digest and the Vulgate.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of wiping the hands.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of wiping with a sponge.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it jokingly of a plundered shrine.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it of wiping away tears.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate has forms of the third-conjugation present.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|wipe]] or rub clean, [[m|en|scrub]], [[m|en|scour]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To wipe away.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(figurative, jocular)'' To strip clean, [[m|en|plunder]].^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[extersus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[abstergeō]]

+ * [[circumtergeō]]

+ * [[dētergeō]]

+ * [[pertergeō]]

+ * [[retergeō]]

+ * [[tergeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}