margo

See also: Margo, margó, Margó, and mar go

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin margō. Doublet of marge and margin.

Noun

margo (plural margines or margos)

1. (anatomy) border, margin
   • 1969, Geological Survey Professional Paper, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 49:

     The colpi are bordered by prominent margos or lips. Тhe margo is separated from the remainder of the heavily sculptured surface by a narrow channel.

Anagrams

• Magor, Magro, Morga, agrom, groma, marog, mogra

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *merǵ-, *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”). Cognate with English mark and march.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ɡoː/, [ˈmärɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ɡo/, [ˈmärɡo]

Noun

margō m or f (genitive marginis); third declension

1. border, margin, edge

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	margō	marginēs
Genitive	marginis	marginum
Dative	marginī	marginibus
Accusative	marginem	marginēs
Ablative	margine	marginibus
Vocative	margō	marginēs

Derived terms

• marginālis
• marginō

Descendants

• Aragonese: marguin, marguen
• Aromanian: mardzinã, mardzine
• Catalan: marge
• → English: margin
• French: marge
• Friulian: margin
• Galician: marxa, marxe
• Italian: margine
• → Norwegian Bokmål: marg, marg (Nynorsk), margin (Bokmål), margin (Nynorsk)
• Occitan: marge
• Old Spanish: marzen
  • Spanish: marcen
• → Polish: margines (learned)
  • → Ukrainian: маргіне́с (marhinés)
• Portuguese: margem
• Romanian: margine
• Sardinian: màrgine, màrgini
• → Old Spanish: marjen
  • Spanish: margen

References

• “margo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “margo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• margo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• margo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.