ungo

• (nonstandard) ongo

• Hyphenation: u‧ngo
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔuŋoʔ/ [ˈʔu.ŋoʔ]

ungò

1. (folklore) witchlike or vampirelike creature or monster
2. (by extension) ghost

ungò

1. to be the prey or victim to this creature
2. (of an ungo) to hunt or attack prey
3. to be addicted to something
4. to become; to cause to become or to turn into an ungo
5. to be haunted by a ghost

• balbal, ekek, kikik, wakwak

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ungo.

• guno, nuog

Borrowed from Latin unguis.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈunɡo/
• Rhymes: -unɡo
• Hyphenation: un‧go

ungo (accusative singular ungon, plural ungoj, accusative plural ungojn)

1. (anatomy) nail, claw

• ungego

ungo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ungere

• ugno, ugnò

• unguō

From earlier unguō, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

Cognates include Sanskrit अनक्ति (anakti, “to oil, anoint”), Sanskrit अञ्जस् (áñjas, “ointment, unguent”),^[1] Old Armenian օծ (ōc) and Proto-Germanic *ankwô.

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

ungō (present infinitive ungere, perfect active ūnxī, supine ūnctum); third conjugation

1. to anoint, smear with oil, grease

   Synonyms: dēlibuō, unguentō, inunguō

• unguentārius
• unguentātus
• unguentō
• unguinōsus

• “ungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ungo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ŭnguĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 14: U–Z, page 36

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

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ungo class XI (plural nyungo class X)

1. winnower (fan for winnowing)