vorago

Alternative forms

• vorrago [19th century]

Etymology

From the Latin vorāgō (“abyss”); compare vorage.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vŏrāʹgō, IPA^(key): /vɒˈɹeɪɡəʊ/

Noun

vorago (plural voragoes or voragines)

1. (now rare) abyss, chasm, gulf

References

• “‖vorago” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

Etymology

From Latin vorāgō

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /voˈra.ɡo/, [voˈr̺äːɡo̞]
• Stress: voràgo
• Hyphenation: vo‧ra‧go

Noun

vorago f (plural voraghi)

1. (poetic) Alternative form of voragine: abyss, chasm
   • 16th century, Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide [Aeneid]‎, Florence: Leonardo Ciardetti, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, published 1827, Libro VI, page 277:

     Era un'atra spelonca, la cui bocca […] ampia vorago facea di rozza e di scheggiosa roccia.

     There was a dark cave, whose opening made a wide chasm of rough and shardy rock.

Etymology

vorō (“I devour”, “I eat greedily”) +‎ -āgō

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /woˈraː.ɡoː/, [wɔˈraː.ɡoː]

Noun

vorāgō f (genitive vorāginis); third declension

1. abyss

References

• vorago in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vorago in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vorago in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)