tersus

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of tergō (“to rub, wipe off, clean”). ==== Participle ==== 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 ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Descendants ===== English: terse Italian: terso Old French: ters Portuguese: terso Spanish: terso === Etymology 2 === From tergō (“to rub, wipe off, clean”). ==== Noun ==== tersus m (genitive tersūs); fourth declension a wiping off, cleansing ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. === References === “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.