“clear” in Latin

To the sight; bright; light; etc., clarus (dear-shining; naturally clear and bright): lucidus (full of light, and shedding light): pellucidua (transparent in itself): perspicuus (transparent, that may be seen through): limpidus (only of water, naturally light and clear): illustris (in the light, bright): nitidus, nitens (of a pure brightness): serenus (clear, unclouded; of the sky, day, etc.; figuratively, of the brow): laetus, hilaris or hilarus (cheerful; of the countenance): purus (pure, clean, unspotted; also, unmixed, as water, air, also sky, gems, ets): mundus (clean). Not to be clear about anything, non habere, quod liqueat. A dear sky, clear weather, serenum, serenitas, sudum. Still and clear weather, tranquilla serenitas. It becomes clear, disserenascit; ’tis so, disserenat. Clear water (not mixed), aqus pura.

Also, clear, i. e., plain, evident, manifest, either to the eye or the mind, perspicuus, apertus, minifestus. evidens; testatus (shown, as it were, by witnesses): notus, cognitus (known): certus (certain): planus (intelligible, plain): elarus, lucidus. dilucidus, illustris (bright, lucid): expressus (exactly expressed): distinctus (well-ordered; also of the speaker). It is clear, est perspicuum, planum, evidens, manifestum: apparet, in aperto est; lucet; liquet. It is clearer than the light, luce, or omni luce, or solis luce clarius est; perspicuum est omnibus. Clear marks of crime, expressa sceleris vestigia. A clear description, dilucida et signiticans descriptio.

Clear, to the hearing, canorus, (clear sounding; opposed to fuscus, thick, hallow: clarisonus is poetical): acutus (sharp, high; opposed to gravis, deep): clarus (clear, audible, loud; opposed to obtusus): candidus (clear, not thick), A clear voice, vox clara or splendida (this last implies sweetness also): vox explanabilis (articulate): vox levis. To make the voice clear, splendorem vocis afferre (Plin.) Clear utterance, os planum or explanatum.

Clear, as a quality of the sight, of the hearing, and also of the mind, acutus (sharp, keen. acute: PROP. and figuratively): acer (sharp, piercing; of the sight and the mind): perspicax (sharp-sighted, piercing: of a person as to his mind): sollers (intelligent, discerning, judicious): ingeniosus (inventive, talented): sagax (sagacious, as to scent or hearing, or as to mind). A clear head, ingenium acutum, acre; aciea mentis, acumen ingenii.

Clear, i. e., free, unencumbered, liber, solutus; liber et solutus: unimpaired, unhurt, integer (whole). intactus (untouched, unimpaired), inviolatus (unviolated), invulneratus (unwounded), incorruptus (untainted, spoiled in no part), incolumis (unhurt), salvus (with life), sospes (saved by the mercy of Heaven). Clear of a thing, liber, or liberatus re, or a re; vacuus re or a re; expers alicujus rei; intactus aliqua re. Clear of debt, aere alieno vacuus (having no debts) :aere alieno solutus (freed from them): to get clear of debt, exire aere alieno, aes alienum dissolvere. To get clear of a thing, se aliqua re exuere, se ex aliqua re explicare, expedire; fugere, effugere aliquid, subterfugere aliquid; evadere ex, etc.; elabi alicui rei or ex re (e.g., custodiae vinculis). To keep (one’s self) clear of, fugere, defugere, cavere: keep anothtr, prohibere or defendere aliquid ab aliquo or aliquem ab aliqua re. To come off clear, vivum, salvum, integrum evadere (come off safe): absolvi (be acquitted): poenas non dare (escape punishment): aliquid impune facere, fecisse. You shall not get off clear, as you suppose, hoc tibi non sic abibit; hoc non impune feceris; hoc non impunitum omittam.

Innocent, pure, innocens, insons, culpa vacuus or carens; purus, cactus, integer, sanctus. A clear conscience, coniscientia optimae mentis; conscientia recte facti or recte factorum; mens bene sibi conscia: to hare a clear conscience, nullius culpae sibi conscium esse, sustentari praeclara conscientia sua. With a clear conscience, sine sollicitudine religiouis; salva fide; salvo officio; salvis legibus; boua mente or bono animo. To be clear of a thing, insontem esse alicujus rei.

Fair, impartial, integer (unbiased), incorruptus (unbribed), aequus (equal, even, just), studio et ira vacuus (dispassionate).

Free, open, patens, apertus; purus (not covered with trees or other things): expeditus (unobstructed): facilis (easy): a clear sea (i. e., without ice), *mare glacie solutum. To give a thing clear course, rem non impedire. To make a clear way, viam sibi aperire: (of those who give way) loco cedere.

Full, entire, solidus, sine ulla deductione; integer, plenus; totus. I set that down as clear gain, id lucro appono, in lucro pono, puto esse de lucro.

to make clear, pure, bright. etc., purgare: repurgare: expurgare: purum facere (general term, purificare, not to be recommended): mundum facere: mundare: emundare (both post-Augustan): abluere (to wash off): tergere: detergere (wipe off): extergere (to wipe out): verrere: everrere (by sweeping): to clear a language from incorrect expressions, expurgare sermonem; sermonem usitatum emendare (after Cic., Brut. 74, 259); consuetudinem vitiosam et corruptam pura et incorrupta consuetudine emendare: to clear one’s conscience. (by the confession of anything), conscientiam exonerare: se exonerare (Curt.., 6, 8, 12, and 9, 9).

Excuse one’s self fully: to clear one’s self from a charge by an oath, *jurare se sceleri non affinem esse: *jurejurando se purgare. to clear one’s self from a charge, crimen amoliri; culpam diluere: to clear one’s self from vices, vitia ponere.

To clarify, Vid:

TO CLEAR UP: (a) INTR., the weather clears up, disserenascit (*Liv., 39, 46): has cleared up, disserenat (*Plin., 18, 35, 82): (b) TR., to clear up a doubt, difficulty. etc, illustrare aliquid: lurem or lumen alicui rei afferre (affundere, erroneous) dare alicui rei lumen: explanare aliquid (to make intelligibe): aperire (develop, all of them with accessary notion of the thing’s being dark or intricate): explicare (unfold; of difficulties): interpretari (interpret; words and things which seem to be without sense to a person not initiated in them): occulta et quasi involuta aperire: doubts, dubia aperire: an error, errorem aperire; lucis aliquid afferre rebus: solvere: dissolvere: resolvere: expedire (to unravel; to untie, as it were; e.g. a knot): enodare (intricate or insidious matters; e.g., the snares of the law, laqueos juris): an ambiguity, ambiguitatem solvere, resolvere: captious questions, captiosa solvere; captiones explicare. discutere.

CLEAR OFF (= pay off), e.g., tribus pensionibus solvere pecuniam, to clear off a debt in three instalments: to clear off a debt, aes alienum solvere, dissolvere; se liberare aere alieno; nomen solvere, dissolvere, expedire (all of debts), also solvere, reddere debitum; solidum solvere (the whole debt): ad assem solvere: (to clear off every sixpence, not ad denarium, Vid: Cic., Quint., 4, extr., and ad Att., 2, 6, extr).

To disencumber, tutum reddere or praestare (e.g., a place, the sea, etc., of enemies, ab hostibus, or of robbers, a latronibus, or praedonibus, i. e., to overcome them): to clear trees from moss, arbores emuscare (general term): arboribus muscum abradere: arbores interradere (by scraping it off): to clear out the sewers, cloacas purgare or detergere.

To clear away, tollere (e.g., tollere mensam; tollere patinam. to clear the table): tollere de loco; ex loco (from a place): amoliri (of obstacles; also with addition of e medio, with labor and difficulty): to clear away obstacles, impedimenta superare; ea quae obstant transcendere (to overcome them): amoliri quae impedimento sunt (remove them by great exertions, after Ter., Andria, 4, 2, 24).

CLEAR OUT (= empty): to clear a roum, a house, etc., vacuum facere: vacuefacere: purgare (to clear of anything unnecessary, e.g., fossas): detergere (of sewers, trenches. etc., cloacas, fossas).

To pay the custom-house duty, portorium dare.

To gain, e.g., a good deal of money is cleared by anything, permagna pecunia ex re conficitur. I clear some money by anything, pecunias facio or capio ex re: what is cleared by the mines, pecunia, quae redit ex metallis; pecunias, quas facio ex metallis. I clear nothing. except by anything, est solum mini aliquid (e.g., praedium) in reditu (Plin., Ep., 4, 6, 1): that by which anything is cleared, fructuosum; quaestuosum: a great deal is cleared by the vineyards, uberrimus est reditus vinearum: a certain amount is cleared by anything, aliquid statum reditum. praestat (Plin., Ep., 3, 19, 5): fifty talents are cleared every year from that district, ex ea regione redeunt quotannis quinquaginta talenta.

To sell off or clear a shop, divendere: distrahere: foras, quidquid habeo, vendo (Plaut., Stich, 1, 3. 67).

To acquit, absolvere, of anything, alicujus rei (of a crime, injuriarum), or with regard to a thing, aliqua re or de aliqua re (e.g., regni suspicione, de praevaricatione): exsolvere (of anything, aliqua re): liberare (of anything, aliqua re).