vorago
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- vorrago [19th century]
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin vorāgō (“abyss”); compare vorage.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vŏrāʹgō, IPA(key): /vɒˈɹeɪɡəʊ/
Noun edit
vorago (plural voragos or voragoes or voragines)
References edit
- “‖vorago” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vorago f (plural voraghi)
- (poetic) Alternative form of voragine: abyss, chasm
- 16th century, Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide [Aeneid][1], Florence: Leonardo Ciardetti, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, published 1827, Libro VI, page 277:
- Era un'atra spelonca, la cui bocca
[…] ampia vorago
Facea di rozza e di scheggiosa roccia.- There was a dark cave, whose opening made a wide chasm of rough and shardy rock.
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
Alteration of earlier voraco, from vorax, vorac(is) + -ō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯oˈraː.ɡoː/, [u̯ɔˈräːɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /voˈra.ɡo/, [voˈräːɡo]
Noun edit
vorāgō f (genitive vorāginis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vorāgō | vorāginēs |
Genitive | vorāginis | vorāginum |
Dative | vorāginī | vorāginibus |
Accusative | vorāginem | vorāginēs |
Ablative | vorāgine | vorāginibus |
Vocative | vorāgō | vorāginēs |
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References edit
- “vorago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vorago”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vorago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- vorago 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)