See also: Ego, égo, égő, ego-, -ego, and его

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.

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NounEdit

ego (countable and uncountable, plural egos)

  1. 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.
  2. (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.’

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CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin ego. Doublet of jo.

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NounEdit

ego m (plural egos)

  1. ego (the self)
    Synonym: jo

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CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin ego (I).

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NounEdit

ego n

  1. ego
  2. (psychoanalysis) ego

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See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

  • ego in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
  • ego in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Learned borrowing from Latin egō.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈeː.ɣoː/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ego

NounEdit

ego n (plural ego's, diminutive egootje n)

  1. ego, self

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FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin egō (I).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈeɡo/, [ˈe̞ɡo̞]
  • Rhymes: -eɡo
  • Syllabification(key): e‧go

NounEdit

ego

  1. ego
  2. (psychoanalysis) ego

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of ego (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
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)
possessor singular plural
1st person egoni egomme
2nd person egosi egonne
3rd person egonsa

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IdoEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English egoFrench égoGerman EgoItalian egoRussian э́го (égo)Spanish ego. Decision no. 693, Progreso IV.

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NounEdit

ego (invariable)

  1. ego

Derived termsEdit

  • egoismo (egoism)
  • egoista (egoistic; selfish)
  • egoisto (egotist)
  • ne-ego (nonego, the external world)
  • neego (nonego, the external world)

IndonesianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin ego (I), from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Doublet of eke.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈeɡo]
  • Hyphenation: égo

NounEdit

ego (first-person possessive egoku, second-person possessive egomu, third-person possessive egonya)

  1. (psychology) ego.

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin ego.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛ.ɡo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡo
  • Syllabification: è‧go

NounEdit

ego m (invariable)

  1. ego

Further readingEdit

  • ego in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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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)

  1. I; first person singular personal pronoun, nominative case
    • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:19
      et aut ego indigna fui illis aut illi mihi forsitan digni non fuerunt quia forsitan viro alio conservasti me
      And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man

DeclensionEdit

Number Singular Plural
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
is ea id nōs vōs
eae ea
Genitive meī tuī suī eius nostrī
nostrum
vestrī
vestrum
suī eōrum eārum eōrum
Dative mihi tibi sibi nōbīs vōbīs sibi eīs
Accusative
sēsē
eum eam id nōs vōs
sēsē
eōs eās ea
Ablative
sēsē
nōbīs vōbīs
sēsē
eīs
Vocative egō nōs vōs

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DescendantsEdit

Inherited
  • Sardinian: dego, deo, deu, ego, eo, eu
  • Vulgar Latin: eo (see there for further descendants)
Borrowed
  • Catalan: ego
  • Dutch: ego
  • English: ego
  • French: ego
  • Galician: ego
  • German: Ego
  • Italian: ego
  • Portuguese: ego
  • Spanish: ego

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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

LatvianEdit

NounEdit

ego m (invariable)

  1. ego

NounEdit

ego m (invariable)

  1. eglantine

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PolishEdit

 
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin ego.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

ego n (indeclinable)

  1. (psychoanalysis) ego (the most central part of the mind which mediates with one's surroundings)

Further readingEdit

  • ego in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ego in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin ego (I). Doublet of eu.

PronunciationEdit

 

  • Hyphenation: e‧go

NounEdit

ego m (plural egos)

  1. ego (the self)
  2. (psychology) ego (most central part of the mind)

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin ego.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /êːɡo/
  • Hyphenation: e‧go

NounEdit

ȇgo m (Cyrillic spelling е̑го)

  1. ego

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin ego (I). Doublet of yo.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈeɡo/ [ˈe.ɣ̞o]
  • Rhymes: -eɡo
  • Syllabification: e‧go

NounEdit

ego m (plural egos)

  1. ego
    Synonym: yo

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TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin ego (I).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

ego (definite accusative egou, plural egolar)

  1. ego (the self, especially with a sense of self-importance)
  2. (psychoanalysis) ego

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