vorago

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

vorago (plural voragos or voragoes or voragines)

  1. (now rare) abyss, chasm, gulf

References

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]‎, 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.

Anagrams

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).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

vorāgō f (genitive vorāginis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative vorāgō vorāginēs
genitive vorāginis vorāginum
dative vorāginī vorāginibus
accusative vorāginem vorāginēs
ablative vorāgine vorāginibus
vocative vorāgō vorāginēs

Derived terms

Descendants

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

References

  1. ^ Miller, D. Gary (2006) Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English and their Indo-European Ancestry, Oxford University Press, page 55

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)
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