mego
English
Phrase
mego
- (Internet, text messaging) Initialism of my eyes glaze over: used to indicate the speaker's boredom or impatience with some subject or activity.
Anagrams
- geom., gome
Javanese
Noun
mego
- Nonstandard spelling of méga.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.ɡɔ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛɡɔ
- Syllabification: me‧go
Pronoun
mego
- Alternative form of mojego.
Spanish
Etymology
Most likely a contraction of either Latin mītificus (“mild, soft, gentle”), based on mītis (“mild, mellow”), or of mītigatus (“softened”), from mītigō (“to make soft”). Note, however, that similar forms exist in other European languages (compare English meek, Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌺𐍃 (muks) and Old Norse mjúkr (“soft, gentle”), and Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft”).
Alternatively from Latin magicus, and thus doublet to the borrowing mágico; cf. Portuguese meigo, Leonese meigo, and Galician meigo[1][2].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeɡo/ [ˈme.ɣ̞o]
- Rhymes: -eɡo
- Syllabification: me‧go
Adjective
mego (feminine mega, masculine plural megos, feminine plural megas)
- (archaic) gentle, mild, peaceable
- Synonyms: apacible, manso, tratable
References
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
- “mego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Further reading
- “mego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014