gurges

English

Noun

gurges

1. plural of gurge

Anagrams

• uggers

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Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour”) (whence also vorō). Compare Sanskrit गर्गर (gargara, “whirlpool, eddy; water-jar; subterranean drain”), Ancient Greek γόργυρα (górgura, “underground drain; water-pot; trough”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡur.ɡes/, [ˈɡʊrɡɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡur.d͡ʒes/, [ˈɡurd͡ʒes]

Noun

gurges m (genitive gurgitis); third declension

1. A whirlpool.
2. An eddy.
3. A gulf, or a sea.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gurges	gurgitēs
Genitive	gurgitis	gurgitum
Dative	gurgitī	gurgitibus
Accusative	gurgitem	gurgitēs
Ablative	gurgite	gurgitibus
Vocative	gurges	gurgitēs

References

• “gurges”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gurges”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gurges 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)
• gurges in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be drowned in the eddies: gurgitibus hauriri
    
• “gurges”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray