mergo
Italian
Verb
mergo
- first-person singular present indicative of mergere
Anagrams
- grome
Latin
Etymology
Rhotacized form of Proto-Italic *mezgō, from Proto-Indo-European *mesg- (“to plunge, dip”).
Cognate with Russian промозглый (promozglyj, “dank”), Lithuanian mazgoju (“to wash”), Sanskrit मज्जति (májjati, “dives under”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmer.ɡoː/, [ˈmɛrɡoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmer.ɡo/, [ˈmɛrɡo]
Verb
mergō (present infinitive mergere, perfect active mersī, supine mersum); third conjugation
- I dip (in), immerse; plunge into water; drown.
- Synonyms: dēmergō, summergō, immergō, dēmittō, sepeliō, prōcumbō, supprimō
- I overwhelm
- Synonyms: subigō, subiciō, dēvincō, vincō, conquestō, superō, domō, prōflīgō, caedō, obruō, exsuperō, pellō, opprimō, premō, fundō
- I cover, bury
- Synonyms: sepeliō, dēmergō, obruō
- I sink down or in, plunge, thrust, drive or fix in.
- (of water) I engulf, flood, swallow up, overwhelm.
- (figuratively) I hide, conceal, suppress.
- Synonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, obnūbō, operiō, occulō, condō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, tegō, abdō, abscondō, cooperiō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, opprimō
- Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō
Conjugation
| Conjugation of mergō (third conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | mergō | mergis | mergit | mergimus | mergitis | mergunt |
| imperfect | mergēbam | mergēbās | mergēbat | mergēbāmus | mergēbātis | mergēbant | |
| future | mergam | mergēs | merget | mergēmus | mergētis | mergent | |
| perfect | mersī | mersistī | mersit | mersimus | mersistis | mersērunt, mersēre | |
| pluperfect | merseram | merserās | merserat | merserāmus | merserātis | merserant | |
| future perfect | merserō | merseris | merserit | merserimus | merseritis | merserint | |
| passive | present | mergor | mergeris, mergere | mergitur | mergimur | mergiminī | merguntur |
| imperfect | mergēbar | mergēbāris, mergēbāre | mergēbātur | mergēbāmur | mergēbāminī | mergēbantur | |
| future | mergar | mergēris, mergēre | mergētur | mergēmur | mergēminī | mergentur | |
| perfect | mersus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | mersus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | mersus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | mergam | mergās | mergat | mergāmus | mergātis | mergant |
| imperfect | mergerem | mergerēs | mergeret | mergerēmus | mergerētis | mergerent | |
| perfect | merserim | merserīs | merserit | merserīmus | merserītis | merserint | |
| pluperfect | mersissem | mersissēs | mersisset | mersissēmus | mersissētis | mersissent | |
| passive | present | mergar | mergāris, mergāre | mergātur | mergāmur | mergāminī | mergantur |
| imperfect | mergerer | mergerēris, mergerēre | mergerētur | mergerēmur | mergerēminī | mergerentur | |
| perfect | mersus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | mersus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | merge | — | — | mergite | — |
| future | — | mergitō | mergitō | — | mergitōte | merguntō | |
| passive | present | — | mergere | — | — | mergiminī | — |
| future | — | mergitor | mergitor | — | — | merguntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | mergere | mersisse | mersūrum esse | mergī | mersum esse | mersum īrī | |
| participles | mergēns | — | mersūrus | — | mersus | mergendus, mergundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| mergendī | mergendō | mergendum | mergendō | mersum | mersū | ||
Derived terms
- dēmergō
- ēmergō
- immergō
- immersābilis
- mergitō
- mergulus
- mergus
- mersō
- mersus
- summergō
Descendants
- Aromanian: njergu, njeardziri
- → English: merge
- Istro-Romanian: meg, mere
- Italian: mergere
- Megleno-Romanian: mierg
- Portuguese: merger
- Romanian: merge, mergere
References
- “mergo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mergo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mergo 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)
- mergo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to plunge into a life of pleasure: in voluptates se mergere
- to sink a ship, a fleet: navem, classem deprimere, mergere
- to plunge into a life of pleasure: in voluptates se mergere