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Latin
Etymology
From in- + gemō.
Pronunciation
Verb
ingemō (present infinitive ingemere, perfect active ingemuī, supine ingemitum); third conjugation
- to groan, moan or sigh (at or over)
- Synonyms: ingemīscō, gemō
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.691-692:
- oculīsque errantibus altō / quaesīvit caelō lūcem, ingemuitque reperta.
- And with wandering eyes searched for high heaven’s light, and having found it, she groaned.
- (transitive) to deplore, lament
- Synonyms: plangō, dēplōrō, lūgeō, gemō, queror, conqueror, fleō
- to creak
Conjugation
- The third principal part is shared with ingemēscō.
Derived terms
References
- “ingemo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ingemo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ingemo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.