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Italian
Verb
demergo
- first-person singular present indicative of demergere
Latin
Etymology
dē- + mergō
Pronunciation
Verb
dēmergō (present infinitive dēmergere, perfect active dēmersī, supine dēmersum); third conjugation
- to sink or submerge, plunge into
- Synonyms: summergō, immergō, mergō, dēmittō, sepeliō, prōcumbō, supprimō
- to overwhelm, depress
- Synonyms: subigō, subiciō, dēvincō, vincō, conquestō, superō, domō, prōflīgō, caedō, obruō, exsuperō, pellō, opprimō, premō, fundō
- to bury
- Synonyms: obruō, sepeliō, mergō
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “demergo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “demergo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- demergo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to sink into the earth: in terram demergi