cogo

Cognate with Eastern Maninkakan cóo.

cógo

1. manner, way

   ò cógo lá

   in this manner

2. means, solution

   à yé cógo sɔ̀rɔ

   He found a solution

3. conduct, attitude

   à cógo mán ɲì

   He doesn't behave well

4. appearance, form

   à bɛ́ cógo dí ?

   What does it look like?

• Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

• coagō

From co- +‎ agō (“lead, drive, impel, push”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.ɡoː/, [ˈkoːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ɡo/, [ˈkɔːɡo]

cōgō (present infinitive cōgere, perfect active coēgī, supine coāctum); third conjugation

1. to collect, assemble, gather together
2. I restrict or confine in space

   Synonyms: contrahō, cōnferō, congerō, coniungō, concieō, cōnserō, convehō, cōnstruō, glomerō, concitō, colligō, reficiō

   • Thomas of Celano, Dies Irae:

     Tuba mirum spargens sonum, per sepulchra regionum, coget omnes ante Thronum.

     The trumpet, scattering its awesome sound across the sepulchres of the lands, shall assemble all people before the Throne.

3. to force, compel, urge, encourage, finagle

   Synonyms: impingō, perpellō, compellō, impellō, subigō

   • Saint Jerome, Preface to the Vulgata:

     Novum opus facere me cogis ex veteri, ut post exemplaria scripturarum toto orbe dispersa quasi quidam arbiter sedeam (...).

     You order me to make a new work out of the old one, so that after the copies of the Scriptures dispersed across the globe I preside as some kind of arbitrator (...).

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.15:

     ne pulcherrimam prope totius Galliae urbem, quae praesidio et ornamento sit civitati, suis manibus succendere cogerentur

     lest they should be compelled to set fire with their own hands to the fairest city of almost the whole of Gaul, which is a protection and ornament to the state

• coāctus
• coāctō
• coagmentum
• cōgēns

• → French: coger (dialectal, Normandy, Burgundy)
• → Norman: cogier
• → Portuguese: coagir

• “cogo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cogo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cogo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cogo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to draw a conclusion from a thing: concludere, colligere, efficere, cogere ex aliqua re
    
  • to extort money from the communities: pecuniam cogere a civitatibus
    
  • to assemble the senate: senatum cogere (Liv. 3. 39)
    
  • to levy recruits to fill up the strength: supplementum cogere, scribere, legere
    
  • to concentrate all the troops at one point: cogere omnes copias in unum locum
    
  • to bring up the rear: agmen claudere, cogere
    
  • to reduce a country to subjection to oneself: populum in deditionem venire cogere
    

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɔɡɔ/

cogo

1. genitive of co