WASH Copy link • WASH 1. v. Transitively, PROP., lavare (general term): abluere (with or without aqua; to cleanse by water): eluere (to wash out, especially vessels, stains out of anything): perluere (to wash carefully or thoroughly). To wash the body, the feet, corpus, pedes, abluere or perluere (aqua): to wash stains out of a garment, maculos vestis eluere or e veste abluere: to wash a pavement with water, pavimentum aqua perluere: to wash one’s hands, manus tergere, or sibi manus extergere (Plaut.): to wash the face, lavare vultum (Ov.). Proverbially. To wash a blackamoor white [Vid :, WHITE]. Figuratively, Said of the sea, locum alluere or subluere (from below). To be washed by the sea, mari adlui, contineri: mare adtingere: ad mare spectare. To color, Vid: Intransitively. To wash, or wash one’s self, lavari: lavare (seldom, if ever, used by Cic.); in a shower-bath, aqua perfundi (Vid: Auct. ad Her., 4, 9, 10); in a river, flumine corpus abluere; in cold water, frigida lavari. 2. s. Washing, lavatio: lotio: lotura: ablutio (late; Vid: WASHING). To send anything to the wash, aliquid ad lavandum dare. Cosmetic lotion, fucus (general term): medicamentum (e.g., fucati medicamenta candoris et ruboris): adjumentum ad pulchritudinem (Ter., general term). Hogs’ wash, colluvies (Plin., 24, 19, 116). A wash of color, color tenuis. A marsh, Vid: WASH-BALL, gleba saponis (after Caes.): smegma (Plin., a composition for smoothing the skin).