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mergo

1. first-person singular present indicative of mergere

• grome

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”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmer.ɡoː/, [ˈmɛrɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmer.ɡo/, [ˈmɛrɡo]

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 marī mergunt piscīsque cepiunt.

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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

mergō

1. dative/ablative singular of mergus

• “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^[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