mergo
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mergo
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Etymology edit
Rhotacized form of Proto-Italic *mezgō, from Proto-Indo-European *mesg- (“to plunge, dip”).
Cognate with Russian промозглый (promozglyj, “dank”), Lithuanian mazgoju (“to wash”), Sanskrit मज्जति (májjati, “dives under”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmer.ɡoː/, [ˈmɛrɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmer.ɡo/, [ˈmɛrɡo]
Verb edit
mergō (present infinitive mergere, perfect active mersī, supine mersum); third conjugation
- to dip (in), immerse; plunge into water; drown
- to overwhelm
- to cover, bury
- to sink down or in, plunge, thrust, drive or fix in
- (of water) to engulf, flood, swallow up, overwhelm
- (figuratively) to hide, conceal, suppress
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References edit
- “mergo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mergo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mergo 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)
- mergo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to plunge into a life of pleasure: in voluptates se mergere
- to sink a ship, a fleet: navem, classem deprimere, mergere
- to plunge into a life of pleasure: in voluptates se mergere
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 375