cogo
See also: cógo
Latin
Alternative forms
- coagō
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkoː.ɡoː/
Verb
cōgō (present infinitive cōgere, perfect active coēgī, supine coactum); third conjugation
- I collect, assemble, gather together, restrict or confine
- Tuba mirum spargens sonum, per sepulchra regionum, coget omnes ante Thronum.
- The trumpet, scattering its awesome sound across the sepulchres of the lands, shall assemble all people before the Throne. — Thomas of Celano, Dies Irae.
- I force, compel, urge, encourage, finagle.
- Novum opus facere me cogis ex veteri, ut post exemplaria scripturarum toto orbe dispersa quasi quidam arbiter sedeam (...).
- You order me to make a new work out of the old one, so that after the copies of the Scriptures dispersed across the globe I preside as some kind of arbitrator (...). — Saint Jerome, Preface to the Vulgata.
Inflection
References
- cogo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cogo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cogo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- cogo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to draw a conclusion from a thing: concludere, colligere, efficere, cogere ex aliqua re
- to extort money from the communities: pecuniam cogere a civitatibus
- to assemble the senate: senatum cogere (Liv. 3. 39)
- to levy recruits to fill up the strength: supplementum cogere, scribere, legere
- to concentrate all the troops at one point: cogere omnes copias in unum locum
- to bring up the rear: agmen claudere, cogere
- to reduce a country to subjection to oneself: populum in deditionem venire cogere
- to draw a conclusion from a thing: concludere, colligere, efficere, cogere ex aliqua re
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