eligo

== Latin == === Etymology === From ex- (“out of, from”) +‎ legō (“choose, select, appoint”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈeː.lɪ.ɡoː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛː.li.ɡo] === Verb === ēligō (present infinitive ēligere, perfect active ēlēgī, supine ēlēctum); third conjugation to choose, to pluck or root out, extract (figuratively, of persons or things) to pick out, choose, elect Synonyms: adoptō, optō, dēstinō, dēligō, dēsūmō, sēpōnō, legō, sūmō, capiō, creō ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “eligere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 213 === Further reading === “eligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “eligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “eligo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.