conglobe

English

Etymology
PIE word
*ḱóm

From French conglober, from Latin conglobāre, the present active infinitive of conglobō (“to gather into a ball; to accumulate; to crowd together”),[1][2] from con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several objects) + globus (“round object, globe, sphere; glob; group”) (from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to form into a ball; a ball”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəŋˈɡləʊb/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /kəŋˈɡloʊb/
  • Rhymes: -əʊb
  • Hyphenation: con‧globe.

Verb

conglobe (third-person singular simple present conglobes, present participle conglobing, simple past and past participle conglobed)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, poetic, archaic) To collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread, / And vital virtue infused and vital warmth, / Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purged / The black, tartareous, cold, infernal, dregs / Adverse to life: then founded, then conglobed / Like things to like.
    • 1880, Robert Browning, “Pan and Luna”, in Dramatic Idyls: Second Series, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 143:
      But what means this? The downy swathes combine, / Conglobe, the smothery coy-caressing stuff / Curdles about her!

References
  1. “conglobe, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022.
  2. “conglobe, v.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.
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