vorago

English

Alternative forms

• vorrago [19th century]

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vorāgō (“abyss”); compare vorage.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vŏrāʹgō, IPA^(key): /vɒˈɹeɪɡəʊ/

Noun

vorago (plural voragos or voragoes or voragines)

1. (now rare) abyss, chasm, gulf

References

• “‖vorago” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vorāgō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /voˈra.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Hyphenation: vo‧rà‧go

Noun

vorago f (plural voraghi)

1. (poetic) Alternative form of voragine: abyss, chasm
   • 16th century, Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide [Aeneid]‎^[1], Florence: Leonardo Ciardetti, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, published 1827, Libro VI, page 277:

     Era un'atra spelonca, la cui bocca
     […] ampia vorago
     Facea di rozza e di scheggiosa roccia.

     There was a dark cave, whose opening made a wide chasm of rough and shardy rock.

Related terms

• vora
• voragine
• voro

Anagrams

• rogavo

Latin

Etymology

Synchronically vorō +‎ -āgō. Diachronically, may be derived from vorāx, vorāc-, with the velar assimilated in oblique cases to the nasal suffix derived from Proto-Indo-European *-h₃onh₂- (e.g. genitive *worāk-nes > *worāg-nes > vorāginis).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯oˈraː.ɡoː/, [u̯ɔˈräːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /voˈra.ɡo/, [voˈräːɡo]

Noun

vorāgō f (genitive vorāginis); third declension

1. abyss, chasm, whirlpool, deep hole, pit

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vorāgō	vorāginēs
Genitive	vorāginis	vorāginum
Dative	vorāginī	vorāginibus
Accusative	vorāginem	vorāginēs
Ablative	vorāgine	vorāginibus
Vocative	vorāgō	vorāginēs

Derived terms

• vorāginōsus

Related terms

• vorācitās
• vorāciter
• vorātor
• vorātrīna
• vorātus
• vorāx
• vorō

Descendants

• English: vorago
• Italian: voragine
• Old French: vorage
• Spanish: vorágine

Further reading

• “vorago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vorago”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vorago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• vorago 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)