myEtymology.com: French etymology of purger

Etymology of the French word purger

the Old French word purger

derived from the Latin word purgare (make clean, cleanse; excuse)

derived from the Latin word purus (chaste, unpolluted by sex; plain; clear, limpid, free of mist; pure, clean, unsoiled)

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peuə-

English purge, Romanian purja, Romanian purga

Italian purgare, Spanish purgar

Word found in Old French