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Definitions and meaning of ego

ego

Etymology

From 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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈiːɡəʊ/
  • (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɡəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈiɡoʊ/
• Rhymes: -iːɡəʊ

Noun

ego (countable and uncountable, plural egos)

2. The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
3. (psychology, Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings.
4. A person's self-esteem and opinion of themselves.

Synonyms

• I, Ich

Coordinate terms

• (Freudian self): id, superego

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• EOG, GEO, GOE, Geo., Goe, geo, geo-, goe

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ego. Doublet of jo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈe.ɣu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈe.ɣo]

Noun

ego m (plural egos)

1. ego (the self)

   Synonym: jo

Related terms

• egoisme
• egoista

Further reading

• “ego” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ego (“I”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛɡo]

Noun

ego n

1. ego
2. (psychoanalysis) ego

Declension

Synonyms

• já

Related terms

See also

• superego
• id

Further reading

• ego in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• ego in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin egō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.ɣoː/
• Hyphenation: ego

Noun

ego n (plural ego's, diminutive egootje n)

1. ego, self

Derived terms

• egodocument

Related terms

• egoïsme, egoïst, egoïstisch

Anagrams

• oge

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin egō (“I”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɡo/, [ˈe̞ɡo̞]
• Rhymes: -eɡo
• Syllabification^(key): e‧go

Noun

ego

1. ego
2. (psychoanalysis) ego

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “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

• geo-

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English ego, French égo, German Ego, Italian ego, Russian э́го (égo), Spanish ego. Decision no. 693, Progreso IV.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.ɡo/

Noun

ego (invariable)

1. ego

Derived terms

Indonesian

Etymology

From Latin ego (“I”), from Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Doublet of eke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈeɡo]
• Hyphenation: égo

Noun

ego (first-person possessive egoku, second-person possessive egomu, third-person possessive egonya)

1. (psychology) ego.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “ego” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ego.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡo
• Hyphenation: è‧go

Noun

ego m (invariable)

1. ego

Further reading

• ego in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• geo-, goe

Latin

Alternative forms

• eco (archaic)
• eo (late)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Compare Ancient Greek ἐγώ (egṓ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ɡoː/, [ˈɛɡoː] or IPA^(key): /ˈe.ɡo/, [ˈɛɡɔ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ɡo/, [ˈɛːɡo]

Pronoun

egō̆ (first person, nominative, plural nōs)

1. I; first person singular personal pronoun, nominative case
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:19

Declension

• Mēd is an early form of mē.

Derived terms

• mecum
• egomet, meimet, mihimet, memet
• proximus egomet mihi

Descendants

• Sardinian: dego, deo, deu, ego, eo, eu

Reflexes of the late variant eo:

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: iou
  • Istro-Romanian: io
  • Megleno-Romanian: io
  • Romanian: eu, io
• Dalmatian:
  • ju
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: eiu
  • Italian: io
    • → Interlingua: io
  • Gallurese: e
  • Neapolitan: io
  • Sassarese: éiu
  • Sicilian: eu
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: jo
  • Romansch: jau
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: jo
  • Franco-Provençal: je
  • Old French: je (see there for further descendants)
  • Gascon: jo
  • Old Occitan: eu, ieu; ie
    • Occitan: ieu
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: yo
  • Old Leonese: [Term?]
    • Asturian: yo
    • Extremaduran: yo
    • Leonese: you
    • Mirandese: you
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: eu (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: yo (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: ego
• → Dutch: ego
• → English: ego
• → French: ego
• → Galician: ego
• → German: Ego
• → Italian: ego
• → Portuguese: ego
• → Spanish: ego

See also

References

• “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.

Latvian

Noun

ego m (invariable)

1. ego

Noun

ego m (invariable)

1. eglantine

Synonyms

• smaržlapu roze

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ego. Doublet of ja (“I”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɡɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡɔ
• Syllabification: e‧go

Noun

ego n (indeclinable)

1. (psychoanalysis) ego (the most central part of the mind which mediates with one's surroundings)

Further reading

• ego in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ego in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ego (“I”). Doublet of eu.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛɡu
• Hyphenation: e‧go

Noun

ego m (plural egos)

1. ego (the self)
2. (psychology) ego (most central part of the mind)

Derived terms

• massagear o ego

Related terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ego.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /êːɡo/
• Hyphenation: e‧go

Noun

ȇgo m (Cyrillic spelling е̑го)

1. ego

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ego (“I”). Doublet of yo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɡo/ [ˈe.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -eɡo
• Syllabification: e‧go

Noun

ego m (plural egos)

1. ego

   Synonym: yo

Related terms

Further reading

• “ego”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Turkish

Etymology

From Latin ego (“I”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.ɡo/

Noun

ego (definite accusative egou, plural egolar)

1. ego (the self, especially with a sense of self-importance)
2. (psychoanalysis) ego

Related terms

Source: wiktionary.org