- abluo – clean, cleanse, to wash
- mundus – clean, elegant, neat, universe, world
- tergeo – clean, scour, to wipe
- tergo – clean, fom behind, in the rear, scour, to wipe
- tersi – clean, scour, to wipe
- tersum – clean, scour, to wipe
- tersus – clean, correct, neat
- ex vi termini – from the force of the term