Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From in- (“in, on”) + gerō (“to carry, to bear”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɪŋ.ɡɛ.roː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈin̠ʲ.d͡ʒe.ro]
Verb
[edit]ingerō (present infinitive ingerere, perfect active ingessī, supine ingestum); third conjugation
- to carry, pour or throw in or into
- to heap or pile (up)
- to inflict or obtrude
- ingerō pugnōs in ventrem.
- I punch (you) in the stomach.
- (literally, “I hurl fists”)
- Quintus Curtius, History of Alexander X.5:
- Haud ambiguē tum in eum, cui rēgnum dēstinābātur, ingessit probra.
- Then in plain language he heaped abuse upon the one to whom the throne was being awarded.
- Haud ambiguē tum in eum, cui rēgnum dēstinābātur, ingessit probra.
- to complain, inveigh
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of ingerō (third conjugation)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “ingero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ingero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ingero”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to discharge showers of missiles: tela ingerere, conicere
- to discharge showers of missiles: tela ingerere, conicere
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