margo

See also: Margo, margó, Margó, and mar go

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin margō. Doublet of marge and margin.

Noun

margo (plural margines or margos)

  1. (anatomy, botany) border, margin
    • 1969, Geological Survey Professional Paper, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 49:
      The colpi are bordered by prominent margos or lips. Тhe margo is separated from the remainder of the heavily sculptured surface by a narrow channel.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (boundary, border). Cognate with English mark and march.

Pronunciation

Noun

margō m or f (genitive marginis); third declension

  1. border, margin, edge

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative margō marginēs
genitive marginis marginum
dative marginī marginibus
accusative marginem marginēs
ablative margine marginibus
vocative margō marginēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Aragonese: marguin, marguen
  • Aromanian: mardzinã, mardzine
  • Catalan: marge
  • English: margin
  • French: marge
  • Friulian: margin
  • Galician: marxa, marxe
  • Italian: margine
  • Norwegian Bokmål: marg, marg (Nynorsk), margin (Bokmål), margin (Nynorsk)
  • Occitan: marge
  • Old Spanish: marzen
  • Polish: margines (learned)
  • Portuguese: margem
  • Romanian: margine
  • Sardinian: màrgine, màrgini
  • Sicilian: màrgini
  • Old Spanish: marjen

References

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

Portuguese

Verb

margo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of margar