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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin margō. Doublet of marge and margin.
Noun
margo (plural margines or margos)
- (anatomy) border, margin
1969, Geological Survey Professional Paper, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 49:The colpi are bordered by prominent margos or lips. Тhe margo is separated from the remainder of the heavily sculptured surface by a narrow channel.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *merǵ-, *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”). Cognate with English mark and march.
Pronunciation
Noun
margō m or f (genitive marginis); third declension
- border, margin, edge
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “margo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “margo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- margo 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)
- margo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.