mergo

See also: merĝo

Italian

Verb

mergo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mergere

Anagrams

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 sē 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

    Conjugation

       Conjugation of mergō (third conjugation)
    indicative singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present mergō mergis mergit mergimus mergitis mergunt
    imperfect mergēbam mergēbās mergēbat mergēbāmus mergēbātis mergēbant
    future mergam mergēs merget mergēmus mergētis mergent
    perfect mersī mersistī mersit mersimus mersistis mersērunt,
    mersēre
    pluperfect merseram merserās merserat merserāmus merserātis merserant
    future perfect merserō merseris merserit merserimus merseritis merserint
    passive present mergor mergeris,
    mergere     		mergitur mergimur mergiminī merguntur
    imperfect mergēbar mergēbāris,
    mergēbāre     		mergēbātur mergēbāmur mergēbāminī mergēbantur
    future mergar mergēris,
    mergēre     		mergētur mergēmur mergēminī mergentur
    perfect mersus + present active indicative of sum
    pluperfect mersus + imperfect active indicative of sum
    future perfect mersus + future active indicative of sum
    subjunctive singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present mergam mergās mergat mergāmus mergātis mergant
    imperfect mergerem mergerēs mergeret mergerēmus mergerētis mergerent
    perfect merserim merserīs merserit merserīmus merserītis merserint
    pluperfect mersissem mersissēs mersisset mersissēmus mersissētis mersissent
    passive present mergar mergāris,
    mergāre     		mergātur mergāmur mergāminī mergantur
    imperfect mergerer mergerēris,
    mergerēre     		mergerētur mergerēmur mergerēminī mergerentur
    perfect mersus + present active subjunctive of sum
    pluperfect mersus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
    imperative singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present — merge — — mergite —
    future — mergitō mergitō — mergitōte merguntō
    passive present — mergere — — mergiminī —
    future — mergitor mergitor — — merguntor
    non-finite forms infinitive participle
    active passive active passive
    present mergere mergī mergēns —
    future mersūrum esse mersum īrī mersūrus mergendus,
    mergundus
    perfect mersisse mersum esse — mersus
    future perfect — mersum fore — —
    perfect potential mersūrum fuisse — — —
    verbal nouns gerund supine
    genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
    mergendī mergendō mergendum mergendō mersum mersū

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Aromanian: njergu, njeardziri
    • Istro-Romanian: merg, mere
    • Italian: mergere
    • Megleno-Romanian: mierg
    • Portuguese: merger
    • Romanian: merge, mergere
    • → English: merge

    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[1], 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
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