repurgo Latin · revision 34714

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=59 BC–17 AD, Livy|origins=la pūrgō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈpuːr.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈpur.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''repūrgō''' (present infinitive repūrgāre, perfect active repūrgāvī, supine repūrgātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|pūrgō|t2=to clean]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains [[m|la|pūrgō]] as a contraction of [[m|la|pūrigō]], built on [[m|la|pūrus|t=clean]] and [[m|la|agō|t=to drive, do]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis and Short find it no earlier than the Augustan age;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy uses it of clearing a road by sending men ahead.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Besides clearing roads and ground,^(OLD 2012) it was used of cleaning a wound (Celsus) and of making the eyesight clearer (Seneca).^(OLD 2012) Suetonius has it of clearing the bed of the Tiber and, figuratively, of “cleaning up” the slave prisons throughout Italy.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Florus writes of getting gold by refining it from the veins of ore, and Pliny the Younger of speeches “pruned” and cut down into a single book.^(OLD 2012) Ampelius uses it of purging freedmen from the tribes.^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary gives the sense “to cleanse again”.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of clearing a road.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it of cleansing an ulcer.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of clearing the Tiber and the slave prisons.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 120 AD – Florus uses it of refining gold.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|cleanse]], make clean; to clear (the sight); ''(figurative)'' to clean up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To obtain by cleansing or [[m|en|refine|alt=refining]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To clear of [[m|en|obstruction|alt=obstructions]] (a road, ground, a river bed); ''(figurative)'' to [[m|en|prune]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To [[m|en|purge]] (persons from a list).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[repurgium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}