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abstergeo
abstergeo
Latin
Alternative forms
- abstergō
Verb
abstergeō (present infinitive abstergēre, perfect active abstersī, supine abstersum); second conjugation
Inflection
- In surviving Classical sources, the passive voice is limited to the third-person forms.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- abstergeo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abstergeo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “abstergeo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to banish all sad thoughts: omnem luctum plane abstergere
- to banish all sad thoughts: omnem luctum plane abstergere