purge
English
/pɝdʒ/, /pɜːdʒ/
noun
Definitions
- An act of purging.
- (medicine) An evacuation of the bowels or a vomiting.
- A cleansing of pipes.
- A forcible removal of people, for example, from political activity.
- That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic.
Etymology
Derived from Middle English purgen derived from Old French purgier derived from Latin pūrgō (I make pure, I cleanse) root from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (be clean, pure, cleanse, purify).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pewH-
Gloss
be clean, pure, cleanse, purify
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- compurgation English
- compurgator English
- expurgate English
- expurgator English
- neo-purism English
- purgation English
- purgative English
- purgatorian English
- purgatory English
- purgeability English
- purgeable English
- purgee English
- purger English
- purgery English
- purgest English
- purgeth English
- purification English
- purism English
- purity English
- repurge English
- superpurgation English
- ultrapurism English
- unexpurgated English
- unpurgeable English
- computāre Latin
- expio Latin
- expiātus Latin
- expurgo Latin
- pio Latin
- purus Latin
- pūrgō Latin
- pūrificāre, pūrificō Latin
- puriste French
- puro Spanish, Castilian
- *pew- Proto-Indo-European
- *pewH- Proto-Indo-European
- *puHrós Proto-Indo-European
- *puHtos Proto-Indo-European
- *puHtós Proto-Indo-European
- *puHyós Proto-Indo-European
- पुनाति Sanskrit
- purgen Middle English
- úraigh Irish
- úrscéal Irish
- purgier Old French
- پاک Persian
- *pawākás Proto-Indo-Iranian