PURE Copy link • PUREFree from stains, mixture, etc., purus (without any spot or blemish): mundus (only of solid surfaces, which are free from dirt or stains). (The words are found in this connection and order.) mundus purusque. Pure air, aer purus: pure joy, sincerum gaudium: pure mathematics, *mathesis pura: pure doctrine, formula doctrinae incorrupta: a pure virgin, virgo casta: figuratively, to have pure hands (= not to have stolen anything), manus abstinere alieno; ab alieno abstinere cupiditatem aut manus: pure water, aqua limpida. ☞ Aqua pura is not clear, but unmixed water. Free from moral impurity, purus, integer. (The words are found in this connection and order.) purus et integer: castus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) purus et castus: castus purusque (both of body and mind): impollutus: incontaminatus. To lead a pure life, sancte vivere. Of language, purus: emendatus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) purus et emendatus. Pure Latinity, Latinitas pura et emendata: a pure style, pura oratio: pura et incorrupta dicendi consuetudo (Cic.); purus et emendatus sermo (opposed to inquinatus sermo); purum dicendi genus. Of metals. Pure gold, aurum purum: aurum purum putum: aurum cui obrussa adhibita est: pure silver, aurum purum putum: aurum pustulatum (purified from any admixture of other metals, from all dross).