mergō
Rhotacized form of Proto-Italic *mezgō, from Proto-Indo-European *mésgeti, Proto-Indo-European *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
- 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.
- to overwhelm
- Synonyms: subigō, subiciō, dēvincō, vincō, conquestō, superō, domō, prōflīgō, caedō, obruō, exsuperō, pellō, opprimō, premō, fundō
- to cover, bury
- Synonyms: sepeliō, dēmergō, obruō
- to sink down or in, plunge, thrust, drive or fix in
- (of water) to engulf, flood, swallow up, overwhelm
- (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