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”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈiːɡəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈiɡoʊ/
• Rhymes: -iːɡəʊ

Noun

ego (countable and uncountable, plural egos)

1. The self, especially with a sense of self-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 of ego. 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.

2. (psychology, Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings.
   • 1954, Calvin S. Hall, “A Primer of Freudian Psychology”

     In the well adjusted person the ego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.

See also

• id
• superego

Anagrams

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

Etymology

From Latin ego. Doublet of jo.

Noun

ego m (plural egos)

1. ego (the self)

   Synonym: jo

Further reading

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

Etymology

From Latin ego (“I”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɡɔ/

Noun

ego n

1. ego
2. (psychoanalysis) ego

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

1. ego, self

Anagrams

• oge

Etymology

From Latin egō (“I”).

Noun

ego

1. ego
2. (psychoanalysis) ego

Anagrams

• geo-

Noun

ego m (invariable)

1. ego

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *egō, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ɡoː/, [ˈɛ.ɡoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ɡo/, [ˈeː.ɡo]

(with iambic shortening)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.ɡo/, [ˈɛ.ɡɔ]

Pronoun

ego or egō (first person, nominative, plural nōs)

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

     et aut ego indigna fui illis aut illi mihi forsitan digni non fuerunt quia forsitan viro alio conservasti me (And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man,)

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, 1883–1887)
• ego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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 or ut...
    
  • 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 or ad 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 or mihi 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 or carissime, mi pater (vid. sect. XII. 10)
    
  • (ambiguous) I swear on my conscience: ex animi mei sententia iuro
    

Noun

ego m (invariable)

1. ego

Noun

ego m (invariable)

1. eglantine

Etymology

From Latin ego (“I”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɣu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɡu/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɡo/

Noun

ego m (plural egos)

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

Etymology

From Latin ego.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ȇgo m (Cyrillic spelling е̑го)

1. ego

Etymology

From Latin ego (“I”). Doublet of yo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɡo/, [ˈeɣo]

Noun

ego m (plural egos)

1. ego

   Synonym: yo

Further reading

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