clean (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. mundus2. pūrus • clean (adj.): 1. mundus: perfectly c. baskets: quala mundissima, Col.: c. (or neat) furniture, m. supellex, Hor.: blessed are the p. in heart, beati mundo corde, Vulg. 2. pūrus: to make a field neat and c., agrum mundum p.que facere, Gell.: a c. dress, vestis p.. Virg.: a c. house, p. aedes, Pl. N.B. Mundus usu. conveys the additional sense of neat, elegant (q. v.); purus that of pure, unmixed. Phr.: to make c., purgo: v. to clean, cleanse: to have c. hands (fig.), alieni abstinentem, abstinentissimum esse, Plin. Ep.: v. integrity.
clean (v.) Copy link • clean (v.): purgo, mundo, purum facio: v. to cleanse. Phr.: to c. iron tools. ferramenta detersa nitidare, atque robigine liberare, Col.: esp. with prep. out: to c. out a kitchen, mangers, etc., culinam, praesepia mundanda curare, immunditiis liberare, Col.: to c. out a stable. fimum de stabulo egerere, or simply stabulum egerere, Lact. (of the stable of Augeas): to c. out hives, alvearia sordibus purgare, Pall.: to c. out the bed of the Tiber again, alveum Tiberis repurgare, Suet.: to c. out sewers, cloacas detergere, Liv.
CLEAN Copy link • CLEAN 1. v. [vid CLEANSE]. To clean a room, verrere pavimentum (scilicet, cubiculi, Juv.): a house, aedes (Plaut.): the streets, vias (Suet.). To clean anybody out (= take from him all he has), everrere et extergere omnia (Vid: “sweep clean” under CLEAN, adj). 2. free from stains, 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. Clean vessels, vasa pura: clean linen, *lintea pura: a clean piece of paper, charta pura: to wash clean, pure lavare. “To keep clean” (Vid. CLEAN, v., CLEANSE]. To keep things clean (i. e., habitually), munditiae studere, munditiam adhibere (Vid: Cic., Off., 1, 36, 130). To sweep clean (= plunder anything so as to leave nothing for another), everrere et extergere (e.g., templa. Cic., Verr., 2, 21. 52). FIG., to have clean hands (= not to have stolen anything), manus abstinere alieno; ab alieno abstinere cupiditatem aut manus. OBSERVE: aqua pura is not clean, 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 (chaste, both of body and mind): impollutus: incontam inatus. 3. adv., (quite, altogether), prorsus, plane; funditus (from the foundation): totus (e.g., he is clean altered, totus commutatus est). Numantia was clean destroyed, Numantia funditus deleta est. Sometimes expressed by a compound word, or by some other turn of expression; e.g., to empty the bottle clean, lagenam exsiccare: a jug, potare faece tenus cadum. To leap clean over anything, transilire aliquid or trans aliquid.