ego

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Latin egō (“I”).

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[edit] Noun

ego (plural egos)

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  1. the self, especially with a sense of self-importance
    • 1998, Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
      When every thought absorbs your attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and therefore in the grip of ego. Ego is a conglomeration of recurring thought forms and conditioned mental-emotional patterns that are invested with a sense of I, a sense of self.
  2. (psychology, Freudian) the most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings
    • 1954, Calvin S. Hall, “A Primer of Freudian Psychology”
      In the well adjusted person the ego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.

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terms derived from ego

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the self
psychoanalytic ego

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[edit] Czech

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ego n.

  1. ego
  2. (psychoanalysis) ego

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[edit] Dutch

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ego n. (plural ego's, diminutive egootje)

  1. ego, self

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[edit] Finnish

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ego

  1. ego
  2. (psychoanalysis) ego

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Declension of ego (type valo)
singular plural
nominative ego egot
genitive egon egojen
partitive egoa egoja
accusative ego
egon		 egot
inessive egossa egoissa
elative egosta egoista
illative egoon egoihin
adessive egolla egoilla
ablative egolta egoilta
allative egolle egoille
essive egona egoina
translative egoksi egoiksi
instructive – egoin
abessive egotta egoitta
comitative – egoineen

[edit] Italian

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ego m. inv.

  1. ego

[edit] Latin

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

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ego (first person, nominative, plural nos)

  1. I; first person singular personal pronoun, nominative case

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Irregular declension

Number Singular Plural
nominative ego nōs
genitive meī nostrī, nostrum
dative mihi nōbīs
accusative mē nōs
ablative mē nōbīs
vocative — —


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  • Aragonese: yo
  • Aromanian: iou
  • Catalan: jo
  • English: ego
  • French: je
  • Friulian: jo
  • Galician: eu
  • Interlingua: io
  • Italian: io
  • Occitan:
    • Gascon: jo
    • Lengadocian: ieu
  • Old Provençal: eu, ieu
  • Portuguese: eu
  • Romanian: eu
  • Romansch: jau, eau
  • Sardinian: eo
  • Sicilian: iu
  • Spanish: yo
  • Vulgar Latin: eo

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Latin personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Nominative Genitive Dative Accusative Ablative Possessive
Singular First — ego meī mihi mē meus, -a, -um
Second — tū tuī tibi tē tuus, -a, -um
Reflexive Third — — suī sibi sē, sēsē suus, -a, -um
Third Masculine is eius eī eum eō eius
Feminine ea eam eā
Neuter id id eō
Plural First — nōs nostrī, nostrum nōbīs nōs nōbīs noster, -tra, -trum
Second — vōs vestrī, vestrum vōbīs vōs vōbīs vester, -tra, -trum
Reflexive Third — — suī sibi sē, sēsē suus, -a, -um
Third Masculine eī, iī eōrum eīs eōs eīs eōrum
Feminine eae eārum eās eārum
Neuter ea eōrum ea eōrum

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  • IPA: /êːɡo/
  • Hyphenation: e‧go

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ȇgo m. (Cyrillic spelling е̑го)

  1. ego

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    declension of ego
singular plural
nominative ȇgo ega
genitive ȇga ega
dative egu egima
accusative ego ega
vocative ego ega
locative egu egima
instrumental egom egima

[edit] Spanish

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ego m. (plural egos)

  1. ego

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