rogo

From Proto-Central Pacific *roŋo, from Proto-Oceanic *roŋoʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dəŋəʀ.

rogo

1. (intransitive) to hear (to perceive with the ear)
2. (transitive) to hear (to perceive with the ear)
3. (intransitive) to listen (to pay attention to a sound)
4. (intransitive) to listen (to wait for a sound)
5. (intransitive) to listen (to accept oral instruction)

rogo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rogar

• IPA^(key): /ɽóː.ɡòː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɽóː.ɡʷòː]

rōgṑ m (possessed form rōgòn)

1. cassava, Manihot esculenta
2. various other tubers, including Ampelocissus and Dioscorea dumetorum

• → Nupe: rógò

Borrowed from Latin rogus, from Proto-Italic *rogos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈro.ɡo/, (traditional) /ˈrɔ.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -oɡo, (traditional) -ɔɡo
• Hyphenation: ró‧go, (traditional) rò‧go

rogo m (plural roghi)

1. pyre (for cremation or execution)

   Synonyms: (poetic) ara, (literary) pira

2. (figurative) bonfire; any great fire

   Synonym: incendio

3. (figurative, literary) death

   Synonym: morte

• rogo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• rogo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡo
• Hyphenation: rò‧go

rogo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rogare

• rogo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

rogo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ロゴ

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃roǵós (“stretching”), from *h₃reǵ- (“to stretch out”), with semantic shift "stretch out" > "stretch one's words (to someone)" > "ask", and thus a doublet of regō.^[1] Alternatively, from procō and a doublet of precor and procus. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

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

rogō (present infinitive rogāre, perfect active rogāvī, supine rogātum); first conjugation

1. to ask, enquire

   Synonym: interrogō

2. to request

   Synonyms: requīrō, flagitō, efflagitō, exigō, exposcō, exorō, petō, rogitō, ērogō, expetō, precor, repetō

   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Curculio 5.3.5:

     Cappadox: Iam iam faciam ut iusseris.
     Therapontigonus: Quando vir bonus es, responde quod rogo.
     Cappadox: Roga quod lubet.

     Cappadox: Here, here, I’ll do as you say!
     Therapontigonus: Now that you are decent, answer me what I ask.
     Cappadox: Ask what you like.

   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 627:

     Haud istuc rogo. Fuistine liber? – Fui.

     That isn’t what I’m asking about. Were you a freeman? – I was.

3. to beg, solicit, pray to (someone) for (something) (with two accusatives)

   Synonyms: supplicō, ōrō, obsecrō, expetō, efflāgitō, flāgitō, quaesō

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").
²The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
³At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• “rogo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rogo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "rogo", 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)
• rogo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to entreat earnestly; to make urgent requests: magno opere, vehementer, etiam atque etiam rogare aliquem
    
  • to formally propose a law to the people: legem rogare or rogare populum (cf. sect. XVI. 4, note Aulus Gellius...)
    
  • to ask the opinion of..: sententiam rogare, interrogare
    
  • to make soldiers take the military oath: milites sacramento rogare, adigere
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “rogare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 445

From Hausa rōgṑ.

• IPA^(key): /ɾó.ɡò/

rógò (plural rógòzhì)

1. cassava, Manihot esculenta

• Blench, Roger (1989), “The Evolution of the Cultigen Repertoire of the Nupe of West-Central Nigeria”, in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

Deverbal from rogar.

• (Galicia) IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.ɡo/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.ɡʊ/

rogo m (plural rogos)

1. supplication
2. request

• rogar

• Galician: rogo
• Portuguese: rogo

• Universo Cantigas - "rogo"

From Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz.

rogo m

1. roe (of fish)

• German: Rogen

rogo

1. nominative singular of roga (“disease”)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rogo. Compare Spanish ruego.

• Rhymes: -oɡu
• Hyphenation: ro‧go

rogo m (plural rogos, metaphonic)

1. begging, supplication

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɔɡu
• Hyphenation: ro‧go

rogo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rogar

• “rogo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Proto-Finnic *rooko, borrowed from Baltic, or less likely from Germanic. Cognates include Finnish ruoko.

rogo

1. reed

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “камыш, тростник”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika