mergus

See also: Mergus

Latin

Etymology

From mergō (“dive, plunge”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛr.ɡʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛr.ɡus]

Noun

mergus m (genitive mergī); second declension

diver (loon), a kind of waterfowl
vine-layer

Usage notes

Classical Latin applied the term mergus to the diver (loon), but modern taxonomic Latin applies this term to the merganser, and calls the diver gāvia.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mergus	mergī
genitive	mergī	mergōrum
dative	mergō	mergīs
accusative	mergum	mergōs
ablative	mergō	mergīs
vocative	merge	mergī

Derived terms

mergulus

Related terms

mergō

Descendants

Catalan: murgó
Galician: mergullón, somorgullo
Italian: mergo, smergo, mergollo, marangone
Leonese: mergollón
Occitan: margon, margolh (Provençal)
Portuguese: mergulho, mergulhão
Sicilian: maraguni, marauni
Spanish: somorgujo
→ Translingual: Mergus
Venetan: marangon
- → Cimbrian: marangù, marangùn
- → Greek: μαραγκός (maragkós)
- → Friulian: marangon
- → Ladin: marangon, maringon
- → Lombard: marangù, marengù (Eastern)
- → Ottoman Turkish: مارانغوز, مرانغوز (marangoz), մարանկօզ (marangoz) — Armeno-Turkish
  - Turkish: marangoz
  - → Albanian: marangoz
  - → Armenian: մառանկոզ (maṙankoz), մարանկոզ (marankoz)
  - → Greek: μαραγκός (maragkós)
  - → Romanian: marangoz
- → Romansch: marangun

References

“mergus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“mergus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
mergus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.