absterge
See also: abstergé
English edit
Etymology edit
From French and Middle French absterger or from Medieval Latin abstergēre, present active infinitive of abstergeō (“wipe off or away”); formed from Latin abs- + tergeō (“to wipe off”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əbˈstɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/
- (US) IPA(key): /æbˈstɝd͡ʒ/, /əbˈstɝd͡ʒ/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: ab‧sterge
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
Verb edit
absterge (third-person singular simple present absterges, present participle absterging, simple past and past participle absterged)
- (transitive, archaic, now rare) To make clean by wiping; to wipe away. [First attested in the early 16th century.][1]
References edit
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absterge”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.
Latin edit
Verb edit
abstergē
Spanish edit
Verb edit
absterge
- inflection of absterger: