Abbreviation ofEnglish Eg go n .
ego
( international standards ) ISO 639-3 language code forEggon . FromLatin ego ( “ I ” ) . Chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of GermanIch as a noun for this concept from the pronounich ( “ I ” ) .Doublet ofI andIch .
ego (countable anduncountable ,plural egos )
Theself , especially with a sense ofself-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 ofego .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 themind , which mediates with one's surroundings.1954 , Calvin S. Hall,A Primer of Freudian Psychology :In the well adjusted person theego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.
1991 September,Stephen Fry , chapter 1, inThe Liar , London:Heinemann ,→ISBN , section I,page13 :‘Everything begins with “I”, you mean. Which isego ,’ said Tom, placing an ankle behind his ear, ‘notid .’ A person's self-esteem and opinion of themselves.1976 February 7, Philip Gambone, “Coming Out: The Gay Identity Process”, inGay Community News , volume 3, number32 , page 4:Too many gay people "come out" publicly, yet fail to achieve truly healthyegos . They "adjust" to being less than whole or integrated persons.
2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, inRAIL , number1000 , page60 :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 hisego .
( anthropology , genealogy ) The individual from whosepoint of view afamily tree orpedigree chart is drawn, or the reference point from whomkinship terminology is relative. (Used without the definite articlethe .)the cousin ofego on the father's side
the self
Arabic:اَلْأَنَا m ( al-ʔanā ) Catalan:jo (ca) m ,ego (ca) m Chinese:Mandarin:自我 (zh) ( zì wǒ ) Danish:ego (da) n Dutch:ego (nl) n Esperanto:egoo (eo) Finnish:minä (fi) ;ego (fi) French:moi (fr) m Galician:ego (gl) m ,eu (gl) German:Ich (de) n ,Ego (de) n Greek:εγώ (el) n ( egó ) Hebrew:אגו (he) m ( ego ) Hindi:अहं (hi) ( ahã ) Hungarian:én (hu) sg ,szelf sg Icelandic:sjálf n Ido:ego (io) Japanese:自我 (ja) ( じが, jiga ) ,エゴ ( ego ) Korean:자아 (ko) ( jaa ) Latin:idem (la) n Norwegian:Bokmål:ego (no) n ,jeg (no) n Nynorsk:ego n ,eg (nn) n Persian:خود (fa) ( xod ) ,نفس (fa) ( nafs ) Portuguese:ego (pt) m ,eu (pt) m Russian:э́го (ru) n ( égo ) ,я (ru) n ( ja ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:е̑го m ,ја̑ Roman:ȇgo (sh) m ,jȃ (sh) Spanish:ego (es) m ,yo (es) m Swedish:ego (sv) n Telugu:అహం (te) ( ahaṁ ) Turkish:ego (tr) Urdu:خاکسار ( xāksār ) ,انا ( anā ) Vietnamese:cái tôi (vi)
Borrowed fromLatin ego .Doublet ofjo .
ego m (plural egos )
ego ( the self ) Synonym: jo Borrowed fromLatin ego ( “ I ” ) .
ego n
ego ( psychoanalysis ) ego Declension ofego (velar neuter )
“ego ”, inKartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech) “ego ”, inAkademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words ] (in Czech),1995 Learned borrowing fromLatin egō .
ego n (singular definite egoet ,plural indefinite egoer )
ego ,self Synonym: jeg Learned borrowing fromLatin egō .
IPA (key ) : /ˈeː.ɣoː/ Hyphenation:ego ego n (plural ego's ,diminutive egootje n )
ego ,self FromLatin egō ( “ I ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /ˈeɡo/ ,[ˈe̞ɡo̞] Rhymes:-eɡo Syllabification(key ) :e‧go Hyphenation(key ) :ego ego
ego ( psychoanalysis ) ego ego m (plural ego or egos )
alternative form ofégo Borrowed from English ego , French égo , German Ego , Italian ego , Russian э́го ( égo ) , Spanish ego . Decision no. 693, Progreso IV .
ego (invariable )
ego FromLatin ego ( “ I ” ) , fromProto-Italic *egō , fromProto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ .Doublet ofeke .
IPA (key ) : [ˈeɡo] Hyphenation:égo ego (plural ego -ego )
( psychology ) ego Synonym: keakuan Borrowed fromLatin ego .
ego m (invariable )
ego ego in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line , Istituto dell'Enciclopedia ItalianaFromProto-Italic *egō , fromProto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ . CompareAncient Greek ἐγώ ( egṓ ) .
egō̆ (first person ,nominative ,plural nōs )
I ; first person singular personal pronoun, nominative case4th century ,St Jerome ,Vulgate ,Tobit 3:19et autego indigna fui illis aut illi mihi forsitan digni non fuerunt quia forsitan viro alio conservasti me And eitherI was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man Mēd is an early form ofmē .Reflexes of the late varianteo :
Balkan Romance: Dalmatian: Italo-Romance:Corsican:eiu Old Italian:eo Italian:io Judeo-Italian:אִייוֹ ( ʔiyo /ijo/ ) Gallurese:e Neapolitan:io Sassarese:éiu Sicilian:ju ,jo ,eu ,jeu ,ia ,iu ,jù ,jèu ,jò ,ìa ,ìu Padanian: Gallo-Romance:Catalan:jo Franco-Provençal:je Old French:je (see there for further descendants ) Gascon:jo Old Occitan:eu ,ieu ,ie ( before an enclitic ) Ibero-Romance:Aragonese:yo Old Leonese:eo ,yo Old Galician-Portuguese:eu (see there for further descendants ) Old Spanish:yo (see there for further descendants ) Borrowings:
Latin personal pronouns together with the possessive and reflexive pronounspronoun possessive number person nominative genitive dative accusative ablative singular first ego meī mihi mē meus ,-a ,-um second tū tuī tibi tē tuus ,-a ,-um third m is ēius eī eum eō — f ea eam eā n id id eō plural first nōs nostrī ,nostrum nōbīs nōs nōbīs noster ,-tra ,-trum second vōs vestrī ,vestrum vōbīs vōs vōbīs vester ,-tra ,-trum third m eī ,iī eōrum eīs eōs eīs — f eae eārum eās n ea eōrum ea reflexive — suī sibi sē ,sēsē suus ,-a ,-um
“ego ”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ),A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press “ego ”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891 ),An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers "ego ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “ego ”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934 ),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894 ),Latin Phrase-Book [3] , 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 orut... 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 orad 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 ormihi 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 orcarissime, mi pater (vid. sect. XII. 10)(ambiguous) I swear on my conscience:ex animi mei sententia iuro ego m (invariable )
ego ego m (invariable )
eglantine Learned borrowing fromLatin egō̆ .Doublet ofja .
ego n (indeclinable )
( psychoanalysis ) ego ( most central part of the mind which mediates with one's surroundings ) Coordinate terms: id ,superego ego inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANego in Polish dictionaries at PWNego in PWN's encyclopediaLearned borrowing fromLatin ego ( “ I ” ) .Doublet ofeu .
Rhymes:-ɛɡu Hyphenation:e‧go ego m (plural egos )
ego ( the self ) ( psychology ) ego ( most central part of the mind ) Borrowed fromLatin ego .
IPA (key ) : /êːɡo/ Hyphenation:e‧go ȇgo m inan (Cyrillic spelling е̑го )
ego Borrowed fromLatin ego ( “ I ” ) .Doublet ofyo .
IPA (key ) : /ˈeɡo/ [ˈe.ɣ̞o] Rhymes:-eɡo Syllabification:e‧go ego m (plural egos )
ego Synonym: yo FromLatin ego ( “ I ” ) , fromProto-Italic *egō , fromProto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ .
ego (definite accusative egou ,plural egolar )
ego (the self, especially with a sense of self-importance)( psychoanalysis ) ego