Pure

English-Latin

pure, adj.

1. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed.
   • purus (-a, -um)
   • merus (-a, -um)
   • integer (-ra, -rum)
2. Free from moral defilement or guilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; — applied to persons.
   • castus (-a, -um)
   • purus (-a, -um)
   • mundus (-a, -um)
   • integer (-ra, -rum)
3. Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; — applied to things and actions.
   • purus (-a, -um)
   • merus (-a, -um)
   • emendatus (-a, -um)
4. relig. Ritually clean; fit for holy services.
   • purus (-a, -um)
   • castus (-a, -um)

Latin-English

pūrē. (ˈpu.re) adv.

1. Purely; in a pure or clean manner.

[purus.]

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Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Brutus 202:

inveniebat igitur acute Cotta, dicebat pure ac solute.

Cotta, then, was keenly inventive; he spoke in a clean, uninhibited style.