ego
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin ego (“I”). Chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Ich as a noun for this concept from the pronoun ich (“I”). Doublet of I and Ich.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈiːɡəʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈiɡoʊ/
- Rhymes: -iːɡəʊ
NounEdit
ego (countable and uncountable, plural egos)
- The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
- 1998, Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
- When every thought absorbs your attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and therefore in the grip of ego. Ego is a conglomeration of recurring thought forms and conditioned mental-emotional patterns that are invested with a sense of I, a sense of self.
- 1998, Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
- (psychology, Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings.
- 1954, Calvin S. Hall, “A Primer of Freudian Psychology”
- In the well adjusted person the ego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 19:
- ‘Everything begins with “I”, you mean. Which is ego,’ said Tom, placing an ankle behind his ear, ‘not id.’
- 1954, Calvin S. Hall, “A Primer of Freudian Psychology”
SynonymsEdit
Coordinate termsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- absolute ego
- alter ego
- auxiliary ego
- ego shooter
- ego surfing
- ego trip
- ego-dystonic
- ego-minded
- ego-mindedness
- ego-self
- ego-surfing
- ego-syntonic
- ego-trip
- ego-tripping
- egocentric
- egocentrically
- egocentricity
- egocentrism
- egodystonic
- egoism
- egoist
- egoistic
- egoistical
- egoistically
- egomania
- egomaniac
- egosyntonic
- egotism
- egotist
- egotistic
- egotistical
- egotistically
- empirical ego
- executive ego function
- non-empirical ego
- pure ego
- super-ego
- superego
- transcendental ego
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AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin ego. Doublet of jo.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ego m (plural egos)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “ego” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
CzechEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin ego (“I”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ego n
DeclensionEdit
SynonymsEdit
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See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Latin egō.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ego n (plural ego's, diminutive egootje n)
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FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ego
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of ego (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | ego | egot | |
genitive | egon | egojen | |
partitive | egoa | egoja | |
illative | egoon | egoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | ego | egot | |
accusative | nom. | ego | egot |
gen. | egon | ||
genitive | egon | egojen | |
partitive | egoa | egoja | |
inessive | egossa | egoissa | |
elative | egosta | egoista | |
illative | egoon | egoihin | |
adessive | egolla | egoilla | |
ablative | egolta | egoilta | |
allative | egolle | egoille | |
essive | egona | egoina | |
translative | egoksi | egoiksi | |
instructive | — | egoin | |
abessive | egotta | egoitta | |
comitative | — | egoineen |
Possessive forms of ego (type valo) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | egoni | egomme |
2nd person | egosi | egonne |
3rd person | egonsa |
AnagramsEdit
IdoEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English ego, French égo, German Ego, Italian ego, Russian э́го (égo), Spanish ego. Decision no. 693, Progreso IV.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ego (invariable)
Derived termsEdit
IndonesianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin ego (“I”), from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Doublet of eke.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ego (first-person possessive egoku, second-person possessive egomu, third-person possessive egonya)
- (psychology) ego.
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “ego” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ego m (invariable)
Further readingEdit
- ego in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- eco (Early Latin)
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἐγώ (egṓ).
PronunciationEdit
(with iambic shortening)
PronounEdit
ego or egō (first person, nominative, plural nōs)
- I; first person singular personal pronoun, nominative case
DeclensionEdit
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
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Person | First | Second | Reflexive third | Third | First | Second | Reflexive third | Third | |||||
Case / Gender | Masc./ Fem./Neut. | Masc. | Fem. | Neut. | Masc./ Fem./Neut. | Masc. | Fem. | Neut. | |||||
Nominative | ego egō |
tū | — | is | ea | id | nōs | vōs | — | eī iī |
eae | ea | |
Genitive | meī | tuī | suī | eius | nostrī nostrum |
vestrī vestrum |
suī | eōrum | eārum | eōrum | |||
Dative | mihi | tibi | sibi | eī | nōbīs | vōbīs | sibi | eīs | |||||
Accusative | mē | tē | sē sēsē |
eum | eam | id | nōs | vōs | sē sēsē |
eōs | eās | ea | |
Ablative | mē | tē | sē sēsē | eō | eā | eō | nōbīs | vōbīs | sē sēsē |
eīs | |||
Vocative | egō | tū | — | nōs | vōs | — |
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Inherited
- Borrowed
See alsoEdit
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Genitive | Dative | Accusative | Ablative | Possessive |
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Singular | First | — | ego | meī | mihi | mē | meus, -a, -um | |
Second | — | tū | tuī | tibi | tē | tuus, -a, -um | ||
Reflexive third | — | — | suī | sibi | sē, sēsē | suus, -a, -um | ||
Third | Masculine | is | eius | eī | eum | eō | eius | |
Feminine | ea | eam | eā | |||||
Neuter | id | id | eō | |||||
Plural | First | — | nōs | nostrī, nostrum | nōbīs | nōs | nōbīs | noster, -tra, -trum |
Second | — | vōs | vestrī, vestrum | vōbīs | vōs | vōbīs | vester, -tra, -trum | |
Reflexive third | — | — | suī | sibi | sē, sēsē | suus, -a, -um | ||
Third | Masculine | eī, iī | eōrum | eīs | eōs | eīs | eōrum | |
Feminine | eae | eārum | eās | eārum | ||||
Neuter | ea | eōrum | ea | eōrum |
ReferencesEdit
- “ego”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ego”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ego 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)
- ego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: vix me contineo quin lacrimem
- I cannot sleep for anxiety: curae somnum mihi adimunt, dormire me non sinunt
- I'm undone! it's all up with me: perii! actum est de me! (Ter. Ad. 3. 2. 26)
- I was induced by several considerations to..: multae causae me impulerunt ad aliquid or ut...
- I console myself with..: hoc (illo) solacio me consōlor
- I console myself with..: haec (illa) res me consolatur
- (great) advantage accrues to me from this: fructus ex hac re redundant in or ad me
- I will refuse you nothing: nihil tibi a me postulanti recusabo
- I express my approval of a thing: res a me probatur
- as far as I can guess: quantum ego coniectura assequor, auguror
- if I am not mistaken: nisi (animus) me fallit
- unless I'm greatly mistaken: nisi omnia me fallunt
- I am not unaware: me non fugit, praeterit
- I cannot bring myself to..: a me impetrare non possum, ut
- I forget something: oblivio alicuius rei me capit
- experience has taught me: usus me docuit
- this goes to prove what I say: hoc est a (pro) me
- the matter speaks for itself: res ipsa (pro me apud te) loquitur
- something harasses me, makes me anxious: aliquid me sollicitat, me sollicitum habet, mihi sollicitudini est, mihi sollicitudinem affert
- I am discontented with my lot: fortunae meae me paenitet
- I am not dissatisfied with my progress: non me paenitet, quantum profecerim
- what will become of me: quid (de) me fiet? (Ter. Heaut. 4. 3. 37)
- it's all over with me; I'm a lost man: actum est de me
- I have great hopes that..: magna me spes tenet (with Acc. c. Inf.) (Tusc. 1. 41. 97)
- hope has played me false: spes me frustratur
- I have received a legacy from a person: hereditas ad me or mihi venit ab aliquo (Verr. 2. 1. 10)
- I have no objection: per me licet
- (ambiguous) to be burned to ashes: incendio deleri, absūmi
- (ambiguous) to be carried off by a disease: morbo absūmi (Sall. Iug. 5. 6)
- (ambiguous) to die a natural death: morbo perire, absūmi, consūmi
- (ambiguous) according to my strong conviction: ex animi mei sententia (vid. sect. XI. 2)
- (ambiguous) I put myself at your disposal as regards advice: consilii mei copiam facio tibi
- (ambiguous) my dear father: pater optime or carissime, mi pater (vid. sect. XII. 10)
- (ambiguous) I swear on my conscience: ex animi mei sententia iuro
- to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: vix me contineo quin lacrimem
LatvianEdit
NounEdit
ego m (invariable)
NounEdit
ego m (invariable)
SynonymsEdit
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ego n (indeclinable)
- (psychoanalysis) ego (the most central part of the mind which mediates with one's surroundings)
Further readingEdit
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin ego (“I”). Doublet of eu.
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: e‧go
NounEdit
ego m (plural egos)
- ego (the self)
- (psychology) ego (most central part of the mind)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ȇgo m (Cyrillic spelling е̑го)
DeclensionEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin ego (“I”). Doublet of yo.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ego m (plural egos)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “ego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ego (definite accusative egou, plural egolar)
- ego (the self, especially with a sense of self-importance)
- (psychoanalysis) ego