mergus

See also: Mergus

Latin

mergus (diver, loon)

Etymology

From mergō (“dive, plunge”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmer.ɡus/, [ˈmɛrɡʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmer.ɡus/, [ˈmɛrɡus]

Noun

mergus m (genitive mergī); second declension

diver (loon), a kind of waterfowl
vine-layer

Usage notes

Classical Latin applied the term mergus to the diver (loon), but modern taxonomic Latin applies this term to the merganser, and calls the diver gāvia.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mergus	mergī
Genitive	mergī	mergōrum
Dative	mergō	mergīs
Accusative	mergum	mergōs
Ablative	mergō	mergīs
Vocative	merge	mergī

Derived terms

mergulus

Related terms

mergō

Descendants

Catalan: murgó
Galician: mergullón, somorgullo
Italian: marangone, smergo
Leonese: mergollón
Occitan: margon, margolh (Provençal)
Portuguese: mergulho, mergulhão
Sicilian: maraguni, marauni
Spanish: somorgujo
→ Translingual: Mergus
Venetian: marangon
- → Cimbrian: marangù, marangùn
- → Greek: μαραγκός (maragkós)
- → Friulian: marangon
- → Ladin: marangon, maringon
- → Lombard: marangù, marengù (Eastern)
- → Ottoman Turkish: مارانغوز‎, مرانغوز‎ (marangoz)
  - Turkish: marangoz
  - → Albanian: marangoz
  - → Greek: μαραγκός (maragkós)
  - → Romanian: marangoz
- → Romansch: marangun

References

“mergus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“mergus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
mergus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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