ago

From Ottoman Turkish آغا (ağa) (compare Turkish ağa) or Greek άγιος (ágios).


ago

in days ago / in days agone

(archaic or dialectal) Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away.

Woe the day—she is agone!

(archaic or dialectal) Nearly gone; dead. (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century)

en-adj

ago (comparative more ago, superlative most ago)

more ago (comparative)
most ago (superlative)

From Middle English ago, agon (“passed”), past participle of agon (“to depart, escape, pass”), from Old English āgān (“to go away, pass away, go forth, come to pass”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”), *gāną (“to go”), equivalent to a- + gone, and by surface analysis, a- + go. Cognate with German ergehen (“to come to pass, fare, go forth”). Compare also Old Saxon āgangan (“to go or pass by”), Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (usgaggan, “to go forth”).


ago

When they first met in 2000, my dad told my mom how he had gotten the money. The story begins 20 years ago.

It was two weeks ago that I saw her last.


ago

I got married ten years ago.

Two years ago a pair of scientists sparked fears of a devastating virus.

2013 August 10, “Damned if you don’t”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

-a/-e/-ja/-je (e.g. egy órája: one hour ago)


ago

eo-head

ago (accusative singular agon, plural agoj, accusative plural agojn)

agon (accusative singular)
agoj (plural)
agojn (accusative plural)


ago

Grazie alla mia ormai lunga esperienza delle cose del campo; ero riuscito a portare con me le mie cose personali: una cintura di fili elettrici intrecciati; il cucchiaio-coltello; un ago con tre gugliate; cinque bottoni; e infine, diciotto pietrine per acciarino che avevo rubato in Laboratoria.

1947, Primo Levi, “Storia di dieci giorni”, in Se questo è un uomo [If This Is a Man], Torino: Einaudi, published 1987, →ISBN, page 190:

Thanks to my by now long experience with camp-related matters; I was able to bring with me my personal items: a belt made of braided electrical wires; the spoon-knife; a needle with three threads; five buttons; and lastly, eighteen flints for the lighter that I robbed from the Laboratory.

From earlier *aco, from Latin acus (“needle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). Compare Romanian ac.


ago

viriliter agite et confortamini nolite timere nec paveatis regem Assyriorum […]

Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, II Paralipomenon [2 Chronicles] 32:7:

"Act strongly and be courageous. Do not fear nor tremble before the king of Assyria"

...doces illum quid sano faciendum sit, non efficis sanum. Pauperi ut agat divitem monstras: hoc quomodo manente paupertate fieri potest?

64 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 94.6.1

...you teach a man what a healthy man should do, but you don't make him healthy. You show the poor how to behave as a rich man: but if they remain poor, how can they do so?

[Amphitryon to Sosia:] age ī tū secundum

c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 2.1.1

Come, do follow after me!
(literally, “Do thou walk after/following (me)!”)

Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.

You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.

[1865, Ausonii Popmae frisii de differentiis verborum cum additamentis ab Hekelii, Richteri, Messerschmidii et Vallaurii
Agere, Facere et Gerere hoc differunt, quod agere et corporis, et vocis, et mentis agitatum comprehendit. Facere tantum refertur ad opera, quae corpore efficimus; aliquando et pro consentire ponitur. His enim loquendi modis utebantur recte antiqui: mecum seu tecum faciam, hoc est, mecum seu tecum consentiam. Gerere est muneris et oneris...]

to make (something that does not continue to exist after the maker stops)

to negotiate, discuss, confer, talk with one about a person or thing

to act, play, perform (e.g., a role in a play)

to perform, transact, conduct, manage (e.g. business, affairs)

“Trōs Tyriusque mihī nūllō discrīmine agētur.”
“Trojan and Tyrian shall be governed [alike], with no difference to me.” – Queen Dido

Mettius Curtius [...] ab arce decucurrerat et effusos egerat Romanos

27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.12

Mettius Curtius [..] had run down from the citadel, and driven the Romans in disorder

to drive (sense of providing an impetus for motion), impel, move, push, put in motion

1877, Sophocles (in translation), Electra, in Aeschyli et Sophoclis: Tragoediae et Fragmenta (Paris: Institutiae Franciae Typographo)

"Meanwhile, Orestes had been driving in last place and holding his horses back, putting his trust in the finish."

Intereā Orestēs postrēmus omnium ultimō locō equōs agēbat, in fīne certam spem victōriae ponēns.

to conduct, drive (sense of providing governance to motion)

to discuss, debate, deliberate (used in civil, political and legal contexts)

ingentis parturit ira minas. / Quo feret ira, sequar! facti fortasse pigebit — / Et piget infido consuluisse viro. / Viderit ista deus, qui nunc mea pectora versat! / Nescio quid certe mens mea maius agit!

Tremndous anger abounds with threat. / I’ll follow where anger carries me. Perhaps I’ll regret my deeds: / I regret having given thought to the interests of an unfaithful husband. / Let the god see to that, which churns within my heart. / Assuredly, I don't know what occupies my mind more greatly!

to aim at, to get at (generally in the subjunctive mood and preceded by ut, and so meaning: "that to might achieve...")

… Agit ipse furentem / in somnīs ferus Aenēās ….

29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.465–466

… In her nightmares, angry Aeneas himself afflicts [Dido] in her madness, ….
(Ambiguity: Other interpretations include drives, chases, or harasses.)

to disturb, agitate, afflict, upset, vex

to drive at, pursue (a course of action)

(of offerings) to slay, kill (as a sacrifice)

(of plants) to put forth, sprout, extend

(passive voice) to go on, to take place, to be at issue

la-verb

agō (present infinitive agere, perfect active ēgī, supine āctum); third conjugation

agō (canonical)
agere (infinitive present)
ēgī (active perfect)
āctum (supine)
agō (active first-person indicative present singular)
agis (active indicative present second-person singular)
agit (active indicative present singular third-person)
agimus (active first-person indicative plural present)
agitis (active indicative plural present second-person)
agunt (active indicative plural present third-person)
agēbam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
agēbās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
agēbat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
agēbāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
agēbātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
agēbant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
agam (active first-person future indicative singular)
agēs (active future indicative second-person singular)
aget (active future indicative singular third-person)
agēmus (active first-person future indicative plural)
agētis (active future indicative plural second-person)
agent (active future indicative plural third-person)
ēgī (active first-person indicative perfect singular)
ēgistī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
ēgit (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
ēgimus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
ēgistis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
ēgērunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
ēgēre (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
ēgeram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
ēgerās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
ēgerat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
ēgerāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
ēgerātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
ēgerant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
ēgerō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
ēgeris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
ēgerit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
ēgerimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
ēgeritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
ēgerint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
agor (first-person indicative passive present singular)
ageris (indicative passive present second-person singular)
agere (indicative passive present second-person singular)
agitur (indicative passive present singular third-person)
agimur (first-person indicative passive plural present)
agiminī (indicative passive plural present second-person)
aguntur (indicative passive plural present third-person)
agēbar (first-person imperfect indicative passive singular)
agēbāris (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
agēbāre (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
agēbātur (imperfect indicative passive singular third-person)
agēbāmur (first-person imperfect indicative passive plural)
agēbāminī (imperfect indicative passive plural second-person)
agēbantur (imperfect indicative passive plural third-person)
agar (first-person future indicative passive singular)
agēris (future indicative passive second-person singular)
agēre (future indicative passive second-person singular)
agētur (future indicative passive singular third-person)
agēmur (first-person future indicative passive plural)
agēminī (future indicative passive plural second-person)
agentur (future indicative passive plural third-person)
āctus + future active indicative of sum (future indicative passive perfect)
agam (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
agās (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
agat (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
agāmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
agātis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
agant (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
agerem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
agerēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
ageret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
agerēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
agerētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
agerent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
ēgerim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
ēgerīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
ēgerit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
ēgerīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
ēgerītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
ēgerint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
ēgissem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
ēgissēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
ēgisset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
ēgissēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
ēgissētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
ēgissent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
agar (first-person passive present singular subjunctive)
agāris (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
agāre (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
agātur (passive present singular subjunctive third-person)
agāmur (first-person passive plural present subjunctive)
agāminī (passive plural present second-person subjunctive)
agantur (passive plural present subjunctive third-person)
agerer (first-person imperfect passive singular subjunctive)
agerēris (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
agerēre (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
agerētur (imperfect passive singular subjunctive third-person)
agerēmur (first-person imperfect passive plural subjunctive)
agerēminī (imperfect passive plural second-person subjunctive)
agerentur (imperfect passive plural subjunctive third-person)
age (active imperative present second-person singular)
agite (active imperative plural present second-person)
agitō (active future imperative second-person singular)
agitō (active future imperative singular third-person)
agitōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
aguntō (active future imperative plural third-person)
agere (imperative passive present second-person singular)
agiminī (imperative passive plural present second-person)
agitor (future imperative passive second-person singular)
agitor (future imperative passive singular third-person)
aguntor (future imperative passive plural third-person)
agere (active infinitive present)
ēgisse (active infinitive perfect)
āctūrum esse (active future infinitive)
agī (infinitive passive present)
āctum esse (infinitive passive perfect)
āctum īrī (future infinitive passive)
agēns (active participle present)
āctūrus (active future participle)
āctus (participle passive perfect)
agendus (future participle passive)
agundus (future participle passive)
agendī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
agendō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
agendum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
agendō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)
āctum (accusative noun-from-verb supine)
āctū (ablative noun-from-verb supine)

→ Danish: agere

→ Dutch: ageren

→ English: act

→ French: agir (see there for further descendants)

→ German: agieren

→ Ido: agar

→ Occitan: agir

→ Swedish: agera

From Proto-Italic *agō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti, from the root *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”)
Cognate with Old Irish aigid, Ancient Greek ἄγω (ágō, “I lead”), Old Norse aka (“move, drive”), Avestan 𐬀𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (azaⁱti), Sanskrit अजति (ájati, “to drive, propel, cast”).


ago

From Proto-Loloish *go¹ (Bradley). Cognate with Burmese အစ်ကို (ackui).


ago

From Proto-Polynesian *aŋo, from Proto-Oceanic *yaŋo. Cognate with Tongan ango.


ago

ao (genitive)
ako (partitive)
ago (nominative singular)
aoq (nominative plural)
ao (accusative singular)
aoq (accusative plural)
ao (genitive singular)
akõ (genitive plural)
aka (genitive plural)
ako (partitive singular)
akõ (partitive plural)
aka (partitive plural)
akko (illative singular)
akkõ (illative plural)
akkõhe (illative plural)
akka (illative plural)
akkahe (illative plural)
aon (inessive singular)
aohn (inessive singular)
akõn (inessive plural)
akan (inessive plural)
akõhn (inessive plural)
akahn (inessive plural)
aost (elative singular)
akõst (elative plural)
akast (elative plural)
aolõ (allative singular)
akõlõ (allative plural)
akalõ (allative plural)
aol (adessive singular)
akõl (adessive plural)
akal (adessive plural)
aolt (ablative singular)
akõlt (ablative plural)
akalt (ablative plural)
aos (singular translative)
akõs (plural translative)
akas (plural translative)
aoniq (singular terminative)
akõniq (plural terminative)
akaniq (plural terminative)
aoldaq (abessive singular)
akõldaq (abessive plural)
akaldaq (abessive plural)
aogaq (comitative singular)
akõgaq (comitative plural)
akagaq (comitative plural)

Of disputed origin; cognate to Estonian agu.


ago

àgò onílé yìí o!

excuse me, hello, an interjection used to get the attention of the addressee


ago

(anatomy, Ondo, Ikalẹ, Eastern Akoko, Ọwọ) hip, waist

Compare with Olukumi agó, Itsekiri ẹgó, Igala àgó, Ayere úgó (“navel”). Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *à-gó, from Proto-Edekiri *à-gó, ultimately from Proto-Yoruboid *à-gó. It is unclear if this word was used in Standard Yoruba as there are few texts that cite its existence in Standard Yoruba. It is possible that the word had become long obsolete in Standard Yoruba.