pertergeo Latin · revision 36879

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=la tergeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''pertergeō''' (present infinitive pertergēre, perfect active pertersī, supine pertersum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ A third-conjugation present ''pertergō'' is found in Chiron and Vegetius.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|tergeō|t2=to rub, wipe off]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan reconstructs the simple verb as [[itc-pro|*terg-]] and finds no certain cognates outside Italic.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Lucretius, who says that the air passing through the eyes as it were brushes the pupils: ''quasi perterget pupillās''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lucretius uses it of air and light lightly brushing the eyes,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) a sense the TLL explains as the air seeming to clean the eyes as it passes.^(TLL) Its usual sense was to wipe all over or wipe dry: Horace tells of the table being wiped with a purple cloth, where the TLL notes that Lucilius had used the simple ''tersit'';^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Columella uses it of wiping vessels with a sponge,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) and Valerius Maximus of people who dreamt that some god was wiping their bodies with a sponge.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of air brushing the pupils of the eyes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of wiping a table.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of wiping vessels with a sponge.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+

+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|wipe]] all over, wipe dry, clean thoroughly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To [[m|en|brush]] against, touch lightly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[abstergeō]]

+ * [[circumtergeō]]

+ * [[dētergeō]]

+ * [[extergeō]]

+ * [[retergeō]]

+ * [[tergeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}