Latin

Verb

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

1. I collect, assemble, gather together, restrict or confine

   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. — Thomas of Celano, Dies Irae.

1. I force, compel, urge, encourage.

   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 (...). — Saint Jerome, Preface to the Vulgata.

Inflection

Derived terms

• coactus
• coactō
• cōgēns

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cogo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
    

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɔɡɔ/

Pronoun

cogo

1. genitive of co