gurges
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɝd͡ʒiz/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɜːd͡ʒiːz/
Noun
gurges (plural gurges or gurgeses)
- (rare) A whirlpool.
- (Can we date this quote?), Wilyem Clark, Edgewise, Wilyem Clark, page 72:
- It was early—only ten p.m.—but already gurgeses of light and gales of sound frothed in unison to a familiar relentless heartbeat.
- (heraldry) A series of typically four to six concentric annulets (in early heraldry, from at least the 1200s), or a spiralling line from the centre to the edge of the shield (in late heraldry); a stylized whirlpool.
- 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 153:
- Argent, a gurges azure, is borne by GORGES, of Langford, Wilts., created a Baronet 1612. As the gurges (like the fountain) represents water, argent and azure are its proper tinctures.
- 1894, British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, page 294:
- A shield of arms of early shape : three gurgeses (or roundles charged with a central pellet and two annulets concentric), two and one.
Further reading
- “gurges”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “gurges”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “gurges”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Latin
Etymology
Possibly a reduplicated form of Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour”) (whence also vorō).[1] Compare Sanskrit गर्गर (gargara, “whirlpool, eddy; water-jar; subterranean drain”), Ancient Greek γόργυρα (górgura, “underground drain; water-pot; trough”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡur.ɡes/, [ˈɡʊrɡɛs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈɡur.d͡ʒes/, [ˈɡurd͡ʒes]
Noun
gurges m (genitive gurgitis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | gurges | gurgitēs |
Genitive | gurgitis | gurgitum |
Dative | gurgitī | gurgitibus |
Accusative | gurgitem | gurgitēs |
Ablative | gurgite | gurgitibus |
Vocative | gurges | gurgitēs |
Descendants
References
- “gurges”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “gurges”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gurges 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)
- gurges in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be drowned in the eddies: gurgitibus hauriri
- to be drowned in the eddies: gurgitibus hauriri
- “gurges”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 275-6
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