vergo Latin · revision 31589

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *h₂uerg-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈwɛr.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈvɛr.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vergō''' (present infinitive vergere, perfect active versī); third conjugation, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect was disputed by the grammarians: Charisius and Diomedes give ''verxī'', Probus ''versī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*werg-e/o-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*h₂uerg-|t=to turn]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) It is cognate with [[hit|hurki-|t=wheel]], [[sa|वृणक्ति|tr=vṛṇákti|t=turns, wards off]] and [[ang|wrencan|t=to turn, twist]].^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD also compares [[lt|veržiù]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Varro;^(de Vaan 2008) the OLD's examples begin with Lucretius, who has the sun's heat directed down to the earth,^(OLD 2012) and Cicero, who has all parts of the world tending towards its centre.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to move downward, sink, and to slope down: Cicero describes a roof sloping neatly onto a lower portico.^(OLD 2012) Of places it is to face or lie towards: Caesar says one side of Britain faces Spain and the west.^(OLD 2012) Of time it is to draw towards an end, as Livy's hour of the day already verging on noon, and of affairs to tend towards some state: Cicero asks Atticus to look where things are heading.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of a colour shading into white, and Seneca of people inclined to a vice.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin has it for be inclined, bend, turn.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the sun's heat directed downward.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of sloping and of tending.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of a coast facing west.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–AD 17 – Livy of the hour verging on noon.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To sink or move downward;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ''(transitive)'' to turn or tilt down.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|slope]] down, [[m|en|incline]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of places, to face, lie towards.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of time, to draw towards an end.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of affairs, to tend; of colour, to shade into.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of people, to be inclined towards; to sink into a condition.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[convergō]]

+ * [[dēvergō]]

+ * [[dīvergō]]

+ * [[ēvergō]]

+ * [[invergō]]

+ * [[revergō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vermina]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The neuter plural ''vermina'' “griping pains” may continue a noun ⟨*werg-mn⟩ “contraction” of the belly, which the Romans associated with ''vermis'' “worm”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}