15 May 2016
ergo
[ur-goh, er-goh]
conjunction, adverb
1. therefore.
Origin of ergo
Latin
1350-1400; < Latin
ergo(1)
1. a combining form meaning “work”:
ergograph.
Also, especially before a vowel, erg-.
Origin
combining form representing Greek érgon
ergo(2)
1. a combining form of ergot :
ergotoxine.
Origin
< French
post hoc, ergo propter hoc
[pohst hohk, er-goh prohp-ter hohk; English pohst hok, ur-goh prop-ter hok er-goh]
Latin.
1. after this, therefore because of it: a formula designating an error in logic that accepts as a cause something that merely occurred earlier in time.
cogito, ergo sum
[koh-gi-toh er-goh soo m; English koj-i-toh ur-goh suhm, er-goh]
Spell Syllables
Latin.
1. I think, therefore I am (stated by Descartes as the first principle in resolving universal doubt).
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Examples from the Web for ergo
Contemporary Examples
Danilo Kis is Jewish and Serbian and half-Hungarian and once-Yugoslavian— ergo, European.
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Colum McCann
November 27, 2010
ergo, we should call him Scottie in da club because he is figuratively beaming himself up by smoking a blunt in da club.
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Chancellor Agard
December 2, 2013
Anagram
gore
ogre
Today’s quote
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
– Marcel Proust
On this day
15 May – The Nakba (Day of the Catastrophe), Palestine – commemoration of the displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians and the depopulation and destruction of at least 400 villages during the establishment of Israel in 1948.
15 May 1970 – At Jackson State University in Mississippi, police open fire on students who were protesting against the Vietnam and Cambodian Wars, killing two and injuring twelve.