margo
See also: Margo, margó, Margó, and mar go
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin margō. Doublet of marge and margin.
Noun
margo (plural margines or margos)
- (anatomy) border, margin
- 1969, Geological Survey Professional Paper, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 49:
- The colpi are bordered by prominent margos or lips. Тhe margo is separated from the remainder of the heavily sculptured surface by a narrow channel.
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Anagrams
- Magor, Magro, Morga, agrom, groma, marog, mogra
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *merǵ-, *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”). Cognate with English mark and march.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmar.ɡoː/, [ˈmärɡoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmar.ɡo/, [ˈmärɡo]
Noun
margō m or f (genitive marginis); third declension
- border, margin, edge
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | margō | marginēs |
| Genitive | marginis | marginum |
| Dative | marginī | marginibus |
| Accusative | marginem | marginēs |
| Ablative | margine | marginibus |
| Vocative | margō | marginēs |
Derived terms
- marginālis
- marginō
Descendants
- Aragonese: marguin, marguen
- Aromanian: mardzinã, mardzine
- Catalan: marge
- → English: margin
- French: marge
- Friulian: margin
- Galician: marxa, marxe
- Italian: margine
- → Norwegian Bokmål: marg, marg (Nynorsk), margin (Bokmål), margin (Nynorsk)
- Occitan: marge
- Old Spanish: marcen, marjen
- Portuguese: margem
- Romanian: margine
- Sardinian: màrgine, màrgini
- → Spanish: margen
- → Polish: margines, marża
References
- “margo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “margo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- margo 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)
- margo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette