ego
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin ego (“I”). Chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Ich as a noun for this concept from the pronoun ich (“I”). Doublet of I and Ich.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈiːɡəʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈiɡoʊ/
- Rhymes: -iːɡəʊ
Noun
editego (countable and uncountable, plural egos)
- The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
- 1998, Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth:
- When every thought absorbs your attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and therefore in the grip of ego. Ego is a conglomeration of recurring thought forms and conditioned mental-emotional patterns that are invested with a sense of I, a sense of self.
- (psychology, Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings.
- 1954, Calvin S. Hall, A Primer of Freudian Psychology:
- In the well adjusted person the ego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.
- A person's self-esteem and opinion of themselves.
- 2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60:
- My columns in the early days of the Labour government often featured John Prescott, who was in charge of transport as part of a mega-department created to match his ego.
Synonyms
editCoordinate terms
editDerived terms
edit- absolute ego
- alter ego
- auxiliary ego
- egocentric
- egocentrically
- egocentricity
- egocentrism
- ego death
- ego-dystonic
- egodystonic
- ego-expansion
- egoic
- egoism
- egoist
- egoistic
- egoistical
- egoistically
- egoity
- egoless
- ego lifter
- ego lifting
- egomania
- egomaniac
- ego-minded
- ego-mindedness
- ego-self
- ego shooter
- egosurf
- ego-surfing
- ego surfing
- ego-syntonic
- egosyntonic
- egotism
- egotist
- egotistic
- egotistical
- egotistically
- ego-trip
- ego trip
- ego-tripping
- empirical ego
- executive ego function
- massage someone's ego
- non-empirical ego
- pure ego
- super-ego
- superego
- transcendental ego
Translations
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Anagrams
editCatalan
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin ego. Doublet of jo.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editego m (plural egos)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “ego” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin ego (“I”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editego n
Declension
editSynonyms
editRelated terms
editSee also
editFurther reading
editDutch
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin egō.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editego n (plural ego's, diminutive egootje n)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editAnagrams
editFinnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editego
Declension
editInflection of ego (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | ego | egot | |
genitive | egon | egojen | |
partitive | egoa | egoja | |
illative | egoon | egoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | ego | egot | |
accusative | nom. | ego | egot |
gen. | egon | ||
genitive | egon | egojen | |
partitive | egoa | egoja | |
inessive | egossa | egoissa | |
elative | egosta | egoista | |
illative | egoon | egoihin | |
adessive | egolla | egoilla | |
ablative | egolta | egoilta | |
allative | egolle | egoille | |
essive | egona | egoina | |
translative | egoksi | egoiksi | |
abessive | egotta | egoitta | |
instructive | — | egoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “ego”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Anagrams
editIdo
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English ego, French égo, German Ego, Italian ego, Russian э́го (égo), Spanish ego. Decision no. 693, Progreso IV.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editego (invariable)
Derived terms
editIndonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Latin ego (“I”), from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Doublet of eke.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editego (first-person possessive egoku, second-person possessive egomu, third-person possessive egonya)
- (psychology) ego.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “ego” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editego m (invariable)
Further reading
edit- ego in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
editLatin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Compare Ancient Greek ἐγώ (egṓ).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈe.ɡoː/, [ˈɛɡoː] or IPA(key): /ˈe.ɡo/, [ˈɛɡɔ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.ɡo/, [ˈɛːɡo]
Pronoun
editegō̆ (first person, nominative, plural nōs)
- I; first person singular personal pronoun, nominative case
Declension
editNumber | Singular | Plural | |||||||||||
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Person | First | Second | Reflexive third | Third | First | Second | Reflexive third | Third | |||||
Case / Gender | Masc./ Fem./Neut. | Masc. | Fem. | Neut. | Masc./ Fem./Neut. | Masc. | Fem. | Neut. | |||||
Nominative | egō̆ | tū | — | is | ea | id | nōs | vōs | — | eī iī |
eae | ea | |
Genitive | meī | tuī | suī | eius | nostrī nostrum |
vestrī vestrum |
suī | eōrum | eārum | eōrum | |||
Dative | mihī̆ | tibī̆ | sibi | eī | nōbīs | vōbīs | sibi | eīs | |||||
Accusative | mē | tē | sē sēsē |
eum | eam | id | nōs | vōs | sē sēsē |
eōs | eās | ea | |
Ablative | mē | tē | sē sēsē | eō | eā | eō | nōbīs | vōbīs | sē sēsē |
eīs | |||
Vocative | egō | tū | — | nōs | vōs | — |
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReflexes of the late variant eo:
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
Borrowings:
- → Catalan: ego
- → Dutch: ego
- → English: ego
- → French: ego
- → Galician: ego
- → German: Ego
- → Italian: ego
- → Portuguese: ego
- → Spanish: ego
See also
editNumber | Person | Gender | Nominative | Genitive | Dative | Accusative | Ablative | Possessive |
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Singular | First | — | ego | meī | mihi | mē | meus, -a, -um | |
Second | — | tū | tuī | tibi | tē | tuus, -a, -um | ||
Reflexive third | — | — | suī | sibi | sē, sēsē | suus, -a, -um | ||
Third | Masculine | is | ēius | eī | eum | eō | ēius | |
Feminine | ea | eam | eā | |||||
Neuter | id | id | eō | |||||
Plural | First | — | nōs | nostrī, nostrum | nōbīs | nōs | nōbīs | noster, -tra, -trum |
Second | — | vōs | vestrī, vestrum | vōbīs | vōs | vōbīs | vester, -tra, -trum | |
Reflexive third | — | — | suī | sibi | sē, sēsē | suus, -a, -um | ||
Third | Masculine | eī, iī | eōrum | eīs | eōs | eīs | eōrum | |
Feminine | eae | eārum | eās | eārum | ||||
Neuter | ea | eōrum | ea | eōrum |
References
edit- “ego”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ego”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ego 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)
- ego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: vix me contineo quin lacrimem
- I cannot sleep for anxiety: curae somnum mihi adimunt, dormire me non sinunt
- I'm undone! it's all up with me: perii! actum est de me! (Ter. Ad. 3. 2. 26)
- I was induced by several considerations to..: multae causae me impulerunt ad aliquid or ut...
- I console myself with..: hoc (illo) solacio me consōlor
- I console myself with..: haec (illa) res me consolatur
- (great) advantage accrues to me from this: fructus ex hac re redundant in or ad me
- I will refuse you nothing: nihil tibi a me postulanti recusabo
- I express my approval of a thing: res a me probatur
- as far as I can guess: quantum ego coniectura assequor, auguror
- if I am not mistaken: nisi (animus) me fallit
- unless I'm greatly mistaken: nisi omnia me fallunt
- I am not unaware: me non fugit, praeterit
- I cannot bring myself to..: a me impetrare non possum, ut
- I forget something: oblivio alicuius rei me capit
- experience has taught me: usus me docuit
- this goes to prove what I say: hoc est a (pro) me
- the matter speaks for itself: res ipsa (pro me apud te) loquitur
- something harasses me, makes me anxious: aliquid me sollicitat, me sollicitum habet, mihi sollicitudini est, mihi sollicitudinem affert
- I am discontented with my lot: fortunae meae me paenitet
- I am not dissatisfied with my progress: non me paenitet, quantum profecerim
- what will become of me: quid (de) me fiet? (Ter. Heaut. 4. 3. 37)
- it's all over with me; I'm a lost man: actum est de me
- I have great hopes that..: magna me spes tenet (with Acc. c. Inf.) (Tusc. 1. 41. 97)
- hope has played me false: spes me frustratur
- I have received a legacy from a person: hereditas ad me or mihi venit ab aliquo (Verr. 2. 1. 10)
- I have no objection: per me licet
- (ambiguous) to be burned to ashes: incendio deleri, absūmi
- (ambiguous) to be carried off by a disease: morbo absūmi (Sall. Iug. 5. 6)
- (ambiguous) to die a natural death: morbo perire, absūmi, consūmi
- (ambiguous) according to my strong conviction: ex animi mei sententia (vid. sect. XI. 2)
- (ambiguous) I put myself at your disposal as regards advice: consilii mei copiam facio tibi
- (ambiguous) my dear father: pater optime or carissime, mi pater (vid. sect. XII. 10)
- (ambiguous) I swear on my conscience: ex animi mei sententia iuro
- to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: vix me contineo quin lacrimem
Latvian
editNoun
editego m (invariable)
Noun
editego m (invariable)
Synonyms
editPolish
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin egō̆. Doublet of ja.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editego n (indeclinable)
- (psychoanalysis) ego (most central part of the mind which mediates with one's surroundings)
Further reading
editPortuguese
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin ego (“I”). Doublet of eu.
Pronunciation
edit
- Rhymes: -ɛɡu
- Hyphenation: e‧go
Noun
editego m (plural egos)
- ego (the self)
- (psychology) ego (most central part of the mind)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editSerbo-Croatian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editȇgo m (Cyrillic spelling е̑го)
Declension
editSpanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin ego (“I”). Doublet of yo.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editego m (plural egos)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “ego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Turkish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editego (definite accusative egou, plural egolar)
- ego (the self, especially with a sense of self-importance)
- (psychoanalysis) ego
Related terms
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- en:Psychology
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- en:Psychoanalysis
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- id:Psychology
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- it:Psychology
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