ungo

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• (nonstandard) ongo

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: u‧ngo
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔuŋoʔ/ [ˈʔu.ŋoʔ]

Noun

ungò

1. (folklore) witchlike or vampirelike creature or monster
   • 2015 — Anadia, Sanden J., Lilia Cuntapay Gikulata (02 February), Banat News Cebu

     Nailhan si Lilia sa kadaghanan isip "Queen of Philippine horror movies" gumikan kay kanunay siya nga modala isip ungo sa nangagi niya nga mga pelikula.

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   • 2023 — Mordeno, Marcos C., Ang Wakwak Sa May Sapa (15 April), Someone Else's Windows, Mindaviews, MindaNews

     Bisan sa kaabante nas teknolohiya karong panahona, daghan pang mga Pinoy ang nahikot sa mga too-too kun superstition sa Ingles. Samot na niadtong batan-on pa ako; kanunay nakong madungog ang mga sugilanon bahin sa mga kapre, ongo, sigbin, balbal, barangan ug wakwak.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (by extension) ghost
   • 2016 — Tabasa, Vivencio, Ang ‘Sexy’ nga Ungo (16 July), Sugilanon, Kalingawan, SuperBalita

     Tan-awa, dili ka mokuyog nako kay hadlok ka’s^[sic] ungo kuno diha sa sementeryo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Verb

ungò

1. to be the prey or victim to this creature
2. (of an ungo) to hunt or attack prey
3. to be addicted to something
   • 2006 — Kaparian Mi-alma na Batok Illegal Suertres (17 August), The New Nandau, Vol. XV No.6, Dipolognon Bisaya

     Mga bata ug hamtong, bisan na sa mga estudyante, mag-uuma, tendero ug tendera, drivers, bisan ug diyotay ang kita matag adlaw lakip na ang mga kawani sa gobiyerno ug magtutudlo, naungo sa maong sugal ug nahimong biktima sa illegal nga operasyon.

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   • 2014 — Tiu, Macario D., Durian (02 May), Bisag Unsa, MindaNews

     Mao nay tawag namo diris Dabaw nga “naungo sa durian.”

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2015 — Lobedica, Jenner S., Pildero si Goryo (17 November), Sugilanon, Kalingawan, Banat News

     "Mao kanay angay sa mga hiniktan mo Goryo ug sa tangkal. Naungo ug nabuang ka na gyud sa sugal!" nagpaminti sa kapungot si Karya.

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   • 2016 — Bañoc, Ruphil, Porlon ug Pokemon (30 August), Birada, SuperBalita Cebu

     Ang Station 6 sa San Nicolas Police Station sa dakbayan sa Sugbo milusad niadtong Lunes sa gitawag og Oplan Pokemon. Ang tuyo dili ang pagpanakop og mga pokemon monsters apan stratehiya sa kapolisan nga mapaduol sila ngadto sa mga naungo sa bisyo sa illegal nga drugas.

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4. to become; to cause to become or to turn into an ungo
   • 2014 — De Leon, Abel, Gitakdan sa Ungo (05 May), SuperBalita Cebu

     Naungo na gyud ang iyang manghod.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. to be haunted by a ghost

Synonyms

• balbal, ekek, kikik, wakwak

Anagrams

• guno, nuog

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin unguis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈunɡo/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -unɡo
• Syllabification: un‧go

Noun

ungo (accusative singular ungon, plural ungoj, accusative plural ungojn)

1. (anatomy) nail, claw

Derived terms

• ungego

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈun.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -unɡo
• Hyphenation: ùn‧go

Verb

ungo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ungere

Anagrams

• ugno, ugnò

Latin

Alternative forms

• unguō

Etymology

From earlier unguō, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).

Cognates include Sanskrit अनक्ति (anakti, “to oil, anoint”), Sanskrit अञ्जस् (áñjas, “ointment, unguent”), Old Armenian օծ (ōc) and Proto-Germanic *ankwô.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈʊŋ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈuŋ.ɡo]

Verb

ungō (present infinitive ungere, perfect active ūnxī, supine ūnctum); third conjugation

1. to anoint, smear with oil, grease

   Synonyms: dēlibuō, unguentō, inunguō

Conjugation

   Conjugation of ungō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	ungō		ungis		ungit		ungimus		ungitis		ungunt
	imperfect	ungēbam		ungēbās		ungēbat		ungēbāmus		ungēbātis		ungēbant
	future	ungam		ungēs		unget		ungēmus		ungētis		ungent
	perfect	ūnxī		ūnxistī		ūnxit		ūnximus		ūnxistis		ūnxērunt, ūnxēre
	pluperfect	ūnxeram		ūnxerās		ūnxerat		ūnxerāmus		ūnxerātis		ūnxerant
	future perfect	ūnxerō		ūnxeris		ūnxerit		ūnxerimus		ūnxeritis		ūnxerint
passive	present	ungor		ungeris, ungere		ungitur		ungimur		ungiminī		unguntur
	imperfect	ungēbar		ungēbāris, ungēbāre		ungēbātur		ungēbāmur		ungēbāminī		ungēbantur
	future	ungar		ungēris, ungēre		ungētur		ungēmur		ungēminī		ungentur
	perfect	ūnctus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	ūnctus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	ūnctus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	ungam		ungās		ungat		ungāmus		ungātis		ungant
	imperfect	ungerem		ungerēs		ungeret		ungerēmus		ungerētis		ungerent
	perfect	ūnxerim		ūnxerīs		ūnxerit		ūnxerīmus		ūnxerītis		ūnxerint
	pluperfect	ūnxissem		ūnxissēs		ūnxisset		ūnxissēmus		ūnxissētis		ūnxissent
passive	present	ungar		ungāris, ungāre		ungātur		ungāmur		ungāminī		ungantur
	imperfect	ungerer		ungerēris, ungerēre		ungerētur		ungerēmur		ungerēminī		ungerentur
	perfect	ūnctus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	ūnctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		unge		—		—		ungite		—
	future	—		ungitō		ungitō		—		ungitōte		unguntō
passive	present	—		ungere		—		—		ungiminī		—
	future	—		ungitor		ungitor		—		—		unguntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		ungere			ungī			ungēns			—
future		ūnctūrum esse			ūnctum īrī			ūnctūrus			ungendus, ungundus
perfect		ūnxisse			ūnctum esse			—			ūnctus
future perfect		—			ūnctum fore			—			—
perfect potential		ūnctūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		ungendī		ungendō		ungendum		ungendō		ūnctum		ūnctū

Derived terms

• inungō
• ūnctiō
• unctō
• ūnctum
• ūnctūra
• ūnctus
• unguēdō
• unguen
• unguentum

Related terms

• unguentārius
• unguentātus
• unguentō
• unguinōsus

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: unghere, úngiri
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: ungu, aungu, ung, undziri
  • Istro-Romanian: ungu
  • Megleno-Romanian: ung, unziri
  • Romanian: unge, ungere
  • → Albanian: ngjyej
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: ugne
  • Dalmatian: jongar
  • Italian: ungere, ugnere

    Central Italian: ógne, ógna

    Tuscan: ógnare, úgne, unge

  • Neapolitan: ógnere, ⇒ serógnere, sedógnere
  • Sicilian: ùnciri
  • Venetan: onzer, onxer, ondher, onzar
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: onzi, ongi
  • Ladin: onjer, onje
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: ónnżer
  • Lombard: ongg, vongg, vonz, vonze
  • Piedmontese: onze, onz, vonze, ogne, vogne
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: ouendre
  • Occitan: ónher (multiple dialects)

    Auvergnat: ónjer, onjir

    Gascon: únher

    Languedocien: únher

    Limousin: ónger

  • Old French: oindre
    • French: oindre
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: ungir, ongir
    • Galician: unxir, onxir, xuncir, xunguir
    • Portuguese: ungir
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: xuncir, xuncer, xoncer
    • Leonese: uñir, xunir, uncir

      Salamanca: juñir

• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: ungir
  • → Old Irish: oingid
    • Irish: ung
  • → Spanish: ungir

Further reading

• “ungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ungo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “ŭnguĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 14: U–Z, page 36

Swahili

ungo

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

ungo class XI (plural nyungo class X)

1. winnower (fan for winnowing)

Tsou

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *quSuŋ.

Noun

ungo

1. mushroom

References

• “ungo”, in 原住民族語言線上辭典 [Online Dictionary of Indigenous Languages]‎^[1] (in Mandarin), Taipei: 財團法人原住民族語言研究發展基金會 [Indigenous Languages Research and Development Foundation], 2014–2026