tersus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Perfect passive participle of tergō (“I rub, wipe off, clean”).
Participle
[edit]tersus (feminine tersa, neuter tersum); first/second-declension participle
- clean, neat, rubbed or wiped (off), cleansed, having been cleansed
- (figuratively) pure, correct, nice, terse, spruce, neat
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | tersus | tersa | tersum | tersī | tersae | tersa | |
genitive | tersī | tersae | tersī | tersōrum | tersārum | tersōrum | |
dative | tersō | tersae | tersō | tersīs | |||
accusative | tersum | tersam | tersum | tersōs | tersās | tersa | |
ablative | tersō | tersā | tersō | tersīs | |||
vocative | terse | tersa | tersum | tersī | tersae | tersa |
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From tergō (“I rub, wipe off, clean”).
Noun
[edit]tersus m (genitive tersūs); fourth declension
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | tersus | tersūs |
genitive | tersūs | tersuum |
dative | tersuī | tersibus |
accusative | tersum | tersūs |
ablative | tersū | tersibus |
vocative | tersus | tersūs |
References
[edit]- “tersus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tersus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tersus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.