vorago

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage) From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vorāgō (“abyss”); compare vorage.

Pronunciation

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Noun

vorago (plural voragoes or voragines)

  1. (now rare) abyss, chasm, gulf

References

Italian

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage) From Latin vorāgō

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /voˈra.ɡo/, [voˈr̺äːɡo̞]
  • Hyphenation: vo‧rà‧go

Noun

vorago f (plural voraghi)

  1. (poetic) Alternative form of voragine: abyss, chasm
    • 16th century, Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide [Aeneid]‎[1], Florence: Leonardo Ciardetti, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, published 1827, Libro VI, page 277:
      Era un'atra spelonca, la cui bocca […] ampia vorago facea di rozza e di scheggiosa roccia.
      There was a dark cave, whose opening made a wide chasm of rough and shardy rock.

Latin

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage) Alteration of earlier voraco, from vorax, vorac(is) +‎ -ō.

Pronunciation

Noun

vorāgō f (genitive vorāginis); third declension

  1. abyss, chasm, deep hole, pit

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vorāgō vorāginēs
Genitive vorāginis vorāginum
Dative vorāginī vorāginibus
Accusative vorāginem vorāginēs
Ablative vorāgine vorāginibus
Vocative vorāgō vorāginēs

Derived terms

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Descendants

  • English: vorago
  • Italian: voragine
  • Old French: vorage
  • Spanish: vorágine

References

  • “vorago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vorago”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vorago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • vorago 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)
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