migro

See also: migró and migrò

Catalan

Verb

migro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of migrar

Galician

Verb

migro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of migrar

Italian

Verb

migro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of migrare

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *migrāō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂migʷ- (to change). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἀμείβω (ameíbō, idem).[1] See also Latin meō.

Pronunciation

Verb

migrō (present infinitive migrāre, perfect active migrāvī, supine migrātum); first conjugation

  1. to migrate, depart to another place, change residence, move
    Synonyms: commigro, dēmigrō, immigrō
  2. (figuratively) to go away, change
  3. to carry off, transport
  4. to transgress, violate

Conjugation

1At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").
2At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: migrar
  • Dutch: migreren
  • English: migrate
  • French: migrer
  • Galician: migrar
  • Italian: migrare
  • Portuguese: migrar
  • Romanian: migra
  • Spanish: migrar

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “migrō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 379

Further reading

  • migro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • migro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • migro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to depart this life: de vita exire, de (ex) vita migrare

Portuguese

Verb

migro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of migrar

Spanish

Verb

migro

  1. first-person singular present indicative of migrar