dego
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
dēgō (present infinitive dēgere, perfect active dēgī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- I pass time or spend time
- I live
- I continue, endure
ConjugationEdit
ReferencesEdit
- dego in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dego in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to live a happy (unhappy) life: vitam beatam (miseram) degere
- to live (all) one's life (honourably, in the country, as a man of learning): vitam, aetatem (omnem aetatem, omne aetatis tempus) agere (honeste, ruri, in litteris), degere, traducere
- to live in poverty, destitution: vitam in egestate degere
- domestic animals: animalia quae nobiscum degunt (Plin. 8. 40)
- to live a happy (unhappy) life: vitam beatam (miseram) degere
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EtymologyEdit
dei (“up, upward”) + -go (adverbial suffix)
AdverbEdit
dego
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Northern SamiEdit
EtymologyEdit
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PronunciationEdit
PrepositionEdit
dego
Further readingEdit
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland