mergo

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See also: merĝo

Italian

Verb

mergo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mergere

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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

    Verb

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

    1. to dip (in), immerse; plunge into water; drown
      Synonyms: dēmergō, summergō, immergō, dēmittō, sepeliō, prōcumbō, supprimō
      Avēs in mare mergunt piscīsque capiunt.
      Birds plunge themselves into the seawater and seize fish.
    2. to overwhelm
      Synonyms: subigō, subiciō, dēvincō, vincō, conquestō, superō, domō, prōflīgō, caedō, obruō, exsuperō, pellō, opprimō, premō, fundō
    3. to cover, bury
      Synonyms: sepeliō, dēmergō, obruō
    4. to sink down or in, plunge, thrust, drive or fix in
    5. (of water) to engulf, flood, swallow up, overwhelm
    6. (figuratively) to 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

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    Noun

    mergō

    1. dative/ablative singular of mergus

    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, 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
    • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 375