gurges

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English gurges, from Latin gurges. Doublet of gorge and gour. ==== Alternative forms ==== gurge (obsolete outside heraldry) ==== Pronunciation ==== (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɝd͡ʒiz/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɜːd͡ʒiːz/ ==== Noun ==== gurges (plural gurges or gurgeses) (rare) A whirlpool. (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. Synonym: gorges === Etymology 2 === From gurge +‎ -s. ==== Noun ==== gurges plural of gurge === Further reading === “gurges”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “gurges”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “gurges”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Gurges”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC. === Anagrams === Rueggs, uggers == Latin == === Etymology === Possibly a reduplicated form of Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to devour”) (whence also vorō), though the sound change is questionable and the morphology is unclear. Compare Sanskrit गर्गर (gargara, “whirlpool, eddy; water-jar; subterranean drain”), Ancient Greek γόργυρα (górgura, “underground drain; water-pot; trough”), Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“neck; throat”) and English craw. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡʊr.ɡɛs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡur.d͡ʒes] === Noun === gurges m (genitive gurgitis); third declension whirlpool, eddy gulf abyss (poetic) the sea, waters, stream (figurative) an insatiable craving; (of people) a spendthrift ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== gurguliō ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “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, 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “gurges”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray