merge

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mergō (“to dip; dip in; plunge; sink down into; immerse; overwhelm”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɜːdʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɝdʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ

Verb

merge (third-person singular simple present merges, present participle merging, simple past and past participle merged)

1. (transitive) To combine into a whole.

   Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.

   • Burke

     to merge all natural […] sentiment in inordinate vanity

   • De Quincey

     Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots.

2. (intransitive) To combine into a whole.

   The two companies merged.

3. To blend gradually into something else.

   The lanes of traffic merged.

Noun

merge (plural merges)

1. The joining together of multiple sources.

   There are often accidents at that traffic merge.

   The merge of the two documents failed.

Anagrams

• emerg

Verb

merge

1. third-person singular present indicative of mergere

Anagrams

• germe

Verb

merge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of mergō

Alternative forms

• mere (regional, Transylvania)

Etymology

From Latin mergere, present active infinitive of mergō (itself ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mesg- (“to plunge, dip”)), with a unique sense developing in Balkanic or Eastern Romance. Compare Aromanian njergu, njeardziri; cf. also Albanian mërgoj (“to move away”) and Sardinian imbergere (“to push”). There may have been an intermediate sense of "to fall" in earlier Romanian.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmer.d͡ʒe/

Verb

a merge (third-person singular present merge, past participle mers) 3rd conj.

1. to go

   Merg la București mâine.

   I’m going to Bucharest tomorrow.

   Merg să mă întâlnesc cu soțul surorii mele.

   I’m going to meet my sister’s husband.

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