margo

Learned borrowing from Latin margō. Doublet of marge and margin.

margo (plural margines or margos)

1. (anatomy, botany) 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.

• Magor, Magro, Morga, groma, marog, mogra

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“boundary, border”). Cognate with English mark and march.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmar.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmar.ɡo]

margō m or f (genitive marginis); third declension

1. border, margin, edge

Third-declension noun.

• marginālis
• marginō

• “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.

margo

1. first-person singular present indicative of margar