Fromex-(“out of, from”) +‎legō(“choose, select, appoint”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈeː.li.ɡoː/,[ˈeːlʲɪɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈe.li.ɡo/,[ˈɛːliɡo]

ēligō (present infinitiveēligere,perfect activeēlēgī,supineēlēctum);third conjugation

1. tochoose, topluck orrootout,extract
2. (figuratively, of persons or things) topick out,choose,elect

   Synonyms:adoptō,optō,dēstinō,dēligō,dēsūmō,sēpōnō,legō,sūmō,capiō,creō

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “eligere”, inFranzösisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes3: D–F,page213

• “eligo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “eligo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• eligo inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • to choose one from a large number of instances:ex infinita exemplorum copia unum (pauca) sumere, decerpere (eligere)
    
  • to elect to the senate:in senatum legere,eligere
    

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