cogo

See also: cógo

Latin

Alternative forms

• coagō

Etymology

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From co- +‎ agō (“lead, drive, impel, push”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.ɡoː/, [ˈkoːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ɡo/, [ˈkɔːɡo]

Verb

cōgō (present infinitive cōgere, perfect active coēgī, supine coāctum); third conjugation

1. I collect, assemble, gather together, restrict or confine

   Tuba mirum spargens sonum, per sepulchra regionum, coget omnes ante Thronum.

   The trumpet, scattering its awesome sound across the sepulchres of the lands, shall assemble all people before the Throne. — Thomas of Celano, Dies Irae.

1. I force, compel, urge, encourage, finagle.

   Novum opus facere me cogis ex veteri, ut post exemplaria scripturarum toto orbe dispersa quasi quidam arbiter sedeam (...).

   You order me to make a new work out of the old one, so that after the copies of the Scriptures dispersed across the globe I preside as some kind of arbitrator (...). — Saint Jerome, Preface to the Vulgata.

Conjugation

Conjugation of cōgō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cōgō	cōgis	cōgit	cōgimus	cōgitis	cōgunt
	imperfect	cōgēbam	cōgēbās	cōgēbat	cōgēbāmus	cōgēbātis	cōgēbant
	future	cōgam	cōgēs	cōget	cōgēmus	cōgētis	cōgent
	perfect	coēgī	coēgistī	coēgit	coēgimus	coēgistis	coēgērunt, coēgēre
	pluperfect	coēgeram	coēgerās	coēgerat	coēgerāmus	coēgerātis	coēgerant
	future perfect	coēgerō	coēgeris	coēgerit	coēgerimus	coēgeritis	coēgerint
passive	present	cōgor	cōgeris, cōgere	cōgitur	cōgimur	cōgiminī	cōguntur
	imperfect	cōgēbar	cōgēbāris, cōgēbāre	cōgēbātur	cōgēbāmur	cōgēbāminī	cōgēbantur
	future	cōgar	cōgēris, cōgēre	cōgētur	cōgēmur	cōgēminī	cōgentur
	perfect	coāctus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	coāctus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	coāctus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cōgam	cōgās	cōgat	cōgāmus	cōgātis	cōgant
	imperfect	cōgerem	cōgerēs	cōgeret	cōgerēmus	cōgerētis	cōgerent
	perfect	coēgerim	coēgerīs	coēgerit	coēgerīmus	coēgerītis	coēgerint
	pluperfect	coēgissem	coēgissēs	coēgisset	coēgissēmus	coēgissētis	coēgissent
passive	present	cōgar	cōgāris, cōgāre	cōgātur	cōgāmur	cōgāminī	cōgantur
	imperfect	cōgerer	cōgerēris, cōgerēre	cōgerētur	cōgerēmur	cōgerēminī	cōgerentur
	perfect	coāctus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	coāctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	cōge	—	—	cōgite	—
	future	—	cōgitō	cōgitō	—	cōgitōte	cōguntō
passive	present	—	cōgere	—	—	cōgiminī	—
	future	—	cōgitor	cōgitor	—	—	cōguntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		cōgere	coēgisse	coāctūrum esse	cōgī	coāctum esse	coāctum īrī
participles		cōgēns	—	coāctūrus	—	coāctus	cōgendus, cōgundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		cōgendī	cōgendō	cōgendum	cōgendō	coāctum	coāctū

Derived terms

• coāctus
• coāctō
• coagmentum
• cōgēns

References

• “cogo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cogo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cogo 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)
• cogo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to draw a conclusion from a thing: concludere, colligere, efficere, cogere ex aliqua re
    
  • to extort money from the communities: pecuniam cogere a civitatibus
    
  • to assemble the senate: senatum cogere (Liv. 3. 39)
    
  • to levy recruits to fill up the strength: supplementum cogere, scribere, legere
    
  • to concentrate all the troops at one point: cogere omnes copias in unum locum
    
  • to bring up the rear: agmen claudere, cogere
    
  • to reduce a country to subjection to oneself: populum in deditionem venire cogere
    

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɔɡɔ/

Pronoun

cogo

1. genitive of co