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mergi

mergi is a Latin form of mergo, meaning “dip, plunge, sink, drown”. It is the present passive infinitive.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.7: … Punico primo temeritas movebit, qui etiam per iocum deos inridens, cum cavea liberati pulli non pascerentur, mergi eos in aquam iussit, ut biberent, quoniam esse nollent? qui risus classe devicta multas ipsi lacrimas, magnam …

Lucan, Civil War 9.541: Mergi plaustra putas, nullumque in vertice summo

All forms of mergo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.