mergo

See also: merĝo

Italian

Verb

mergo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mergere

Anagrams

• grome

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mesg-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *mésgeti

Proto-Italic *mezgō

Latin mergo

Rhotacized form of Proto-Italic *mezgō, from Proto-Indo-European *mésg-e-ti, thematic present of the root *mesg- (“to plunge, dip”). Cognate with Russian промозглый (promozglyj, “dank”), Lithuanian mazgoju (“to wash”), Sanskrit मज्जति (májjati, “dives under”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

mergō (present infinitive mergere, perfect active mersī, supine mersum); third conjugation

1. to dip (in), immerse; plunge into water; drown

   Synonyms: dēmergō, summergō, immergō, dēmittō, sepeliō, prōcumbō, supprimō

   Avēs sē in mare mergunt piscīsque capiunt.

   Birds plunge themselves into the seawater and seize fish.

   • 45 BCE, Cicero, De natura deorum 2.7:

     cum cavea liberati pulli non pascerentur, mergi eos in aquam iussit, ut biberent

     when the chickens freed from their cages refused to eat, he ordered them to be submerged in water, so that they might drink

2. to overwhelm

   Synonyms: subigō, subiciō, dēvincō, vincō, conquestō, superō, domō, prōflīgō, caedō, obruō, exsuperō, pellō, opprimō, premō, fundō

3. to cover, bury

   Synonyms: sepeliō, dēmergō, obruō

4. to sink down or in, plunge, thrust, drive or fix in
5. (of water) to engulf, flood, swallow up, overwhelm
6. (figuratively) to 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		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		mergere			mergī			mergēns			—
future		mersūrum esse			mersum īrī			mersūrus			mergendus, mergundus
perfect		mersisse			mersum esse			—			mersus
future perfect		—			mersum fore			—			—
perfect potential		mersūrum fuisse			—			—			—
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

• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: njergu, njeardziri
  • Istro-Romanian: merg, mere
  • Megleno-Romanian: mierg
  • Romanian: merge, mergere
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: mergere
• Borrowings:
  • → English: merge
  • → Portuguese: merger

Noun

mergō

1. dative/ablative singular of mergus

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, 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^[1], 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
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 375