tergo
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Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
tergo m (plural terghi)
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
tergo
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈter.ɡoː/, [ˈt̪ɛrɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈter.ɡo/, [ˈt̪ɛrɡo]
Verb[edit]
tergō (present infinitive tergere, perfect active tersī, supine tersum); third conjugation
- Alternative form of tergeō
Conjugation[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Noun[edit]
tergō
References[edit]
- “tergo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tergo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tergo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be on the heels of the enemy: tergis hostium inhaerere
- (ambiguous) to attack the enemy in the rear: hostes a tergo adoriri
- (ambiguous) to surround the enemy from the rear: circumvenire hostem aversum or a tergo (B. G. 2. 26)
- to be on the heels of the enemy: tergis hostium inhaerere
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