mergus

See also: Mergus

Latin

mergus (diver, loon)

Etymology

From mergō (“dive, plunge”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmer.ɡus/, [ˈmɛrɡʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmer.ɡus/, [ˈmɛrɡus]

Noun

mergus m (genitive mergī); second declension

1. diver (loon), a kind of waterfowl
2. 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
    • → Armenian: մառանկոզ (maṙankoz)
    • → Greek: μαραγκός (maragkós)
    • → Romanian: marangoz
  • → Romansch: marangun

See also

• gāvia

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.