ago
Latin
verb
Definitions
- I act, I behave
- I do or make continuously or regularly.
- I negotiate
- I effect, accomplish, achieve
- I treat, I deal
- I act, play, perform e.g., a role in a play
- I perform, transact, conduct, manage e.g. business, affairs
- I administer, direct, guide, govern
- I drive (sense of providing an impetus for motion), impel, move, push
- I conduct, drive (sense of providing governance to motion)
- I discuss, debate, deliberate used in civil, political and legal contexts
- (law) I plead
- I think upon; I am occupied with
- I aim at, I get at generally in the subjunctive mood and preceded by m
- I stir up, excite, cause, induce
- I lead, drive e.g., livestock
- I chase, pursue
- I drive at, pursue (a course of action)
- I rob, steal, plunder, carry off
- (of time) I pass, spend, lead
- (of offerings) I slay, kill (as a sacrifice)
- (of plants) I put forth, sprout, extend
- (law) I hold a court
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Italic *agō (drive, impel, I do, I push, I drive, act) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti (be driving), *h₂eǵ- (drive, lead, push, herd).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂eǵ-
Gloss
drive, lead, push, herd
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
鉛
Emoji
🚂
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aik English
- ambiguous English
- chastise English
- chastisement English
- cogitabund English
- congestive English
- countergesture English
- digester English
- egest English
- egesta English
- egestion English
- egestive English
- gestate English
- gestation English
- gesticulation English
- gesticulative English
- gestural English
- gesturalism English
- gesture English
- gestureless English
- gesturelike English
- react English
- reaction English
- squatter English
- squattocracy English
- suggest English
- aktivoida Finnish
- -igo Latin
- actio Latin
- activus Latin
- actor Latin
- actus Latin
- aeger Latin
- agendus, agenda Latin
- agilis Latin
- agitatus Latin
- agito Latin
- agēns Latin
- agō Latin
- ambigo Latin
- ambiguus Latin
- castigo Latin
- castīgāre Latin
- coactus Latin
- cogitatio Latin
- cogo Latin
- congero Latin
- congestĭō Latin
- cōgitō Latin
- cōgēns Latin
- degero Latin
- dego Latin
- dīgestus Latin
- exactus Latin
- exigentia Latin
- exigere, exigo Latin
- exigo Latin
- exigēns Latin
- gestatio Latin
- gesticulatus Latin
- gesto Latin
- gestus Latin
- ingero Latin
- intergero Latin
- oggero Latin
- praegero Latin
- progero Latin
- ācta Latin
- āctiō Latin
- āctor Latin
- āctus Latin
- āctōrem Latin
- Aktiv German
- actif French
- activer French
- réactionnaire French
- εὐρυάγυια Ancient Greek
- λοχαγός Ancient Greek
- προσαγωγός Ancient Greek
- στρατηγός Ancient Greek
- συνάγω Ancient Greek
- ἀγήνωρ Ancient Greek
- ἀγωγή Ancient Greek
- ἀνάγω Ancient Greek
- ἀναγωγή Ancient Greek
- ἀξιόχρεως Ancient Greek
- ἀρωγή Ancient Greek
- ἄγω Ancient Greek
- ἄξιος Ancient Greek
- ἐπάγω Ancient Greek
- ὁπλιταγωγός Ancient Greek
- ὄναγρος Ancient Greek
- ὑπάγω Ancient Greek
- *h₂(e)ǵ-ó-s, *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂eǵro- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂mbʰi-h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂éǵeti Proto-Indo-European
- *kesa Proto-Indo-European
- *pelh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- aktiv Norwegian Bokmål
- *akaną Proto-Germanic
- aka Norwegian Nynorsk
- aktiv Norwegian Nynorsk
- अजति Sanskrit
- अज् Sanskrit
- आजि Sanskrit
- aka Old Norse
- age Danish
- actif Old French
- digestible Old French
- digestion Old French
- actiu Catalan, Valencian
- aka Icelandic
- άγω Greek (modern)
- akta Indonesian
- aktīvs Latvian
- ածեմ Old Armenian
- aigid Old Irish
- doaig Old Irish
- immaig Old Irish
- ág Old Irish
- aka Faroese
- exigence Middle French
- *ageti Proto-Celtic
- *ambaxtos Proto-Celtic
- *ɸel- Proto-Celtic
- *ɸiɸlāti Proto-Celtic
- *Háȷ́ati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- actiu Occitan
- aka Old Swedish
- aak Westrobothnian
- *agō Proto-Italic
- *gezō Proto-Italic
- agnus Lithuanian
- *Háȷ́ati Proto-Indo-Aryan
- *aja- fiu-pro
- *ágō Proto-Hellenic
- *ekäñye- Proto-Tocharian
- *āk Proto-Tocharian
- *āk- Proto-Tocharian
- agō
- -igo
- ācta
- dego
- cogo
- aeger
- actor
- agēns
- āctiō
- actus
- āctus
- gesto
- āctor
- agito
- exigo
- actio
- ingero
- gestus
- exigo
- degero
- agilis
- oggero
- cōgitō
- ambigo
- cōgēns
- exigere
- congero
- exactus
- progero
- āctōrem
- coactus
- activus
- agendus
- agenda
- exigēns
- castigo
- agitatus
- gestatio
- dīgestus
- ambiguus
- praegero
- congestĭō
- cogitatio
- castīgāre
- exigentia
- intergero
- gesticulatus