vergo

vergo

See also: vergò

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French verge, from Latin virga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈverɡo]
• Rhymes: -erɡo
• Hyphenation: ver‧go

Noun

vergo (accusative singular vergon, plural vergoj, accusative plural vergojn)

1. rod, cane, wand
2. long thin branch
3. stick

Derived terms

• fiŝvergo (“fishing rod”)
• vergi

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Italian

Verb

vergo

1. first-person singular present indicative of vergare

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wergō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wérg-e-ti, from *h₂werg- (“to turn”).[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯er.ɡoː/, [ˈu̯ɛrɡoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈver.ɡo/, [ˈvɛrɡo]

Verb

vergō (present infinitive vergere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stem

1. (transitive) I bend, turn, incline.
2. (intransitive) I bend, turn, verge, slope down.
3. (intransitive) I am situated, lie.

Conjugation

Conjugation of vergō (third conjugation, no supine stem, no perfect stem)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	vergō	vergis	vergit	vergimus	vergitis	vergunt
	imperfect	vergēbam	vergēbās	vergēbat	vergēbāmus	vergēbātis	vergēbant
	future	vergam	vergēs	verget	vergēmus	vergētis	vergent
passive	present	vergor	vergeris, vergere	vergitur	vergimur	vergiminī	verguntur
	imperfect	vergēbar	vergēbāris, vergēbāre	vergēbātur	vergēbāmur	vergēbāminī	vergēbantur
	future	vergar	vergēris, vergēre	vergētur	vergēmur	vergēminī	vergentur
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	vergam	vergās	vergat	vergāmus	vergātis	vergant
	imperfect	vergerem	vergerēs	vergeret	vergerēmus	vergerētis	vergerent
passive	present	vergar	vergāris, vergāre	vergātur	vergāmur	vergāminī	vergantur
	imperfect	vergerer	vergerēris, vergerēre	vergerētur	vergerēmur	vergerēminī	vergerentur
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	verge	—	—	vergite	—
	future	—	vergitō	vergitō	—	vergitōte	verguntō
passive	present	—	vergere	—	—	vergiminī	—
	future	—	vergitor	vergitor	—	—	verguntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		vergere	—	—	vergī	—	—
participles		vergēns	—	—	—	—	vergendus, vergundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		vergendī	vergendō	vergendum	vergendō	—	—

Derived terms

• advergō
• convergō
• dēvergō
• ēvergō
• invergō
• revergō

References

1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “vergō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 665

• “vergo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vergo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vergo 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)
• vergo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lie to the east, west, south, north: spectare in (vergere ad) orientem (solem), occidentem (solem), ad meridiem, in septentriones
    
  • eastern, western Germany: Germania quae or Germaniae ea pars quae, ad orientem, occidentem vergit
    

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Portuguese

Verb

vergo

1. first-person singular present indicative of vergar