mergo

Italian

Verb

mergo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mergere

Anagrams

• grome

Latin

Etymology

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmer.ɡoː/, [ˈmɛrɡoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmer.ɡo/, [ˈmɛrɡo]

Verb

mergō (present infinitive mergere, perfect active mersī, supine mersum); third conjugation

1. I dip (in), immerse; plunge into water; drown.

   Synonyms: dēmergō, summergō, immergō, dēmittō, sepeliō, prōcumbō, supprimō

2. I overwhelm

   Synonyms: subigō, subiciō, dēvincō, vincō, conquestō, superō, domō, prōflīgō, caedō, obruō, exsuperō, pellō, opprimō, premō, fundō

3. I cover, bury

   Synonyms: sepeliō, dēmergō, obruō

4. I sink down or in, plunge, thrust, drive or fix in.
5. (of water) I engulf, flood, swallow up, overwhelm.
6. (figuratively) I hide, conceal, suppress.

   Synonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, obnūbō, operiō, occulō, condō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, tegō, abdō, abscondō, cooperiō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, opprimō

   Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō

Conjugation

Conjugation of mergō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	mergō	mergis	mergit	mergimus	mergitis	mergunt
	imperfect	mergēbam	mergēbās	mergēbat	mergēbāmus	mergēbātis	mergēbant
	future	mergam	mergēs	merget	mergēmus	mergētis	mergent
	perfect	mersī	mersistī	mersit	mersimus	mersistis	mersērunt, mersēre
	pluperfect	merseram	merserās	merserat	merserāmus	merserātis	merserant
	future perfect	merserō	merseris	merserit	merserimus	merseritis	merserint
passive	present	mergor	mergeris, mergere	mergitur	mergimur	mergiminī	merguntur
	imperfect	mergēbar	mergēbāris, mergēbāre	mergēbātur	mergēbāmur	mergēbāminī	mergēbantur
	future	mergar	mergēris, mergēre	mergētur	mergēmur	mergēminī	mergentur
	perfect	mersus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	mersus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	mersus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	mergam	mergās	mergat	mergāmus	mergātis	mergant
	imperfect	mergerem	mergerēs	mergeret	mergerēmus	mergerētis	mergerent
	perfect	merserim	merserīs	merserit	merserīmus	merserītis	merserint
	pluperfect	mersissem	mersissēs	mersisset	mersissēmus	mersissētis	mersissent
passive	present	mergar	mergāris, mergāre	mergātur	mergāmur	mergāminī	mergantur
	imperfect	mergerer	mergerēris, mergerēre	mergerētur	mergerēmur	mergerēminī	mergerentur
	perfect	mersus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	mersus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	merge	—	—	mergite	—
	future	—	mergitō	mergitō	—	mergitōte	merguntō
passive	present	—	mergere	—	—	mergiminī	—
	future	—	mergitor	mergitor	—	—	merguntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		mergere	mersisse	mersūrum esse	mergī	mersum esse	mersum īrī
participles		mergēns	—	mersūrus	—	mersus	mergendus, mergundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		mergendī	mergendō	mergendum	mergendō	mersum	mersū

Derived terms

• dēmergō
• ēmergō
• immergō
• immersābilis
• mergitō
• mergulus
• mergus
• mersō
• mersus
• summergō

Descendants

• Aromanian: njergu, njeardziri
• → English: merge
• Istro-Romanian: meg, mere
• Italian: mergere
• Megleno-Romanian: mierg
• Portuguese: merger
• Romanian: merge, mergere

References

• “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