“dust” in Latin

pulvis (general term): purgamenta (plur., general term for what is removed away in cleaning). Very fine dust, pulvisculus (Plaut.): file dust, scobis (Cels.); ramentum (Plaut.): to raise a dust, pulverem movere or excitare: to lay the dust, pulverem sedare (Phaedrus, 2, 5, 18): to shake off the dust, pulverem excutere: to reduce anything to dust, in pulverem resolvere: to lie in the dust, humi prostratum esse: to raise from the dust, aliquem ex humili loco, or ad dignitatem producere: a fellow raised from the dust, nescio qui ex coeno et tenebris homo: dry dust, pulvis siccus (Col.): thick dust, pulvis densus (Liv.); pulvis altus (i. e., lying thick, Liv.): not to be able to see for the dust, pulvis officit prospectui (Liv.), or adimit prospectum, or aufert prospectum oculorum: covered with dust, pulveris plenus; with dust and sweat, pulvere ac sudore perfusus (Curt.): his shoes were all covered with dust, multus erat in calceis pulvis: a cloud of dust, nubes pulveris (Curt.); nubes pulverea († Verg. with Curt.); vis magna pulveris (Caes.): to lay the dust by watering, humum conspergendo pulverem sedare (Plaut.): the dust has settled, pulvis consedit: a thick cloud of dust rises from the ground, nigro glomeratur pulvere nubes (Verg., Aen., 9, 33): to cover with dust, *pulvere conspergere, opplere: covered with dust, pulverulentus: dust-brush, scopae: scopae virgeae: penicillus.

FIG. 1. (=dissolution, grave), dissolutio, with or without naturae: to return to dust, solvi, with or without morte (†); corporis vinculis evolare (Cic., Somn., Scip., 2). 2. To tread in the dust, obterere aliquem: to be lying in the dust, contemtum jacere, etc.: we are but dust and ashes, pulvis et umbra sumus (A.): to throw dust in anybody’s eyes, alicui fucum, ut dicitur, facere velle (Quint., Cic., ap. Cic.); nebulas cudere (comedy): alicui glaucomam ob oculos objicere (Plaut., Mil. 2, 1, 70): to throw dust in the eyes of one’s hearers, verborum et argutiarum fuliginem ob oculos audientium jacere (Gell., 1, 2).

To sprinkle with dust, *pulvere conspergere, opplere.

To cleanse from dust, pulverem excutere: abstergere, detergere, or extergere (to wipe).