agito
Latin
verb
Definitions
- I act, behave, do, or make persistently or unremittingly.
- I put something in motion, drive, impel; drive by rowing, row about; shake, throb.
- I brandish, wield.
- (of cattle) I drive, conduct; tend, control.
- (of animals) I hunt, chase, pursue.
- I drive to and fro, toss about, agitate, disturb.
- I rouse or stir up, excite, move, urge, drive or impel someone to something, insist on.
- I disturb, disquiet, provoke, agitate, vex, trouble, torment.
- I reprove, assail, blame, decry, scoff, deride, insult, mock.
- I am engaged in, do, accomplish, have, hold, keep; celebrate; practise, exercise.
- (of time) I pass, spend.
- I live, dwell, abide, sojourn.
- (of the mind) I drive at something in the mind; turn over, study, weigh, consider, meditate upon.
- (of the mind) I am occupied with, devise, contrive, plot, design, intend.
- I deliberate upon, confer about, discuss, debate, investigate.
- (with sat (enough) and genitive) I have enough to do, have trouble with, I am fully engaged in.
Etymology
Affix from Latin agō (make, do, I drive, act, drive, I do, impel, move, push, I act, lead) root from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (drive, lead, push, herd).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂eǵ-
Gloss
drive, lead, push, herd
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
鉛
Emoji
🚂
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ambiguous English
- chastise English
- chastisement English
- cogitabund English
- congestive English
- countergesture English
- digester English
- egest English
- egesta English
- egestion English
- egestive English
- gestate English
- gestation English
- gesticulation English
- gesticulative English
- gestural English
- gesturalism English
- gesture English
- gestureless English
- gesturelike English
- intransigent English
- react English
- reaction English
- squatter English
- squattocracy English
- suggest English
- *agīre Latin
- abigo Latin
- actio Latin
- actito Latin
- activus Latin
- actor Latin
- actus Latin
- adagium Latin
- adigo Latin
- aeger Latin
- agendus, agenda Latin
- agilis Latin
- agitatus Latin
- agmen Latin
- agēns Latin
- agīna Latin
- agō Latin
- ambages Latin
- ambigo Latin
- ambiguus Latin
- auriga Latin
- castigo Latin
- castīgāre Latin
- circumago Latin
- coactus Latin
- cogitatio Latin
- cogo Latin
- congero Latin
- congestĭō Latin
- cōgēns Latin
- degero Latin
- dīgestus Latin
- exactus Latin
- examen Latin
- exigentia Latin
- exigo Latin
- exigēns Latin
- gestatio Latin
- gesticulatus Latin
- gesto Latin
- gestus Latin
- indago Latin
- indiges Latin
- ingero Latin
- intergero Latin
- oggero Latin
- perago Latin
- praegero Latin
- prodigo Latin
- progero Latin
- purgo Latin
- reago Latin
- redigo Latin
- subigo Latin
- transigo Latin
- ācta Latin
- āctiō Latin
- āctor Latin
- āctus Latin
- āctōrem Latin
- Agitator German
- agitatorisch German
- agitateur French
- agitation French
- agiter French
- réactionnaire French
- agir Spanish, Castilian
- pródigo Spanish, Castilian
- προσαγωγός Ancient Greek
- ἀγωγή Ancient Greek
- ἀναγωγή Ancient Greek
- ἀξιόχρεως Ancient Greek
- ἀρωγή Ancient Greek
- ἄξιος Ancient Greek
- ὁπλιταγωγός Ancient Greek
- ὄναγρος Ancient Greek
- *h₂(e)ǵ-ó-s, *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂eǵro- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂mbʰi-h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂éǵeti Proto-Indo-European
- *kesa Proto-Indo-European
- *pelh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- agir Portuguese
- pródigo Portuguese
- *akaną Proto-Germanic
- agera Swedish
- अज् Sanskrit
- आजि Sanskrit
- digestible Old French
- digestion Old French
- agita Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- akta Indonesian
- ageren Middle Dutch
- ածեմ Old Armenian
- ág Old Irish
- trashëgoj Albanian
- exigence Middle French
- *ageti Proto-Celtic
- *ambaxtos Proto-Celtic
- *ɸel- Proto-Celtic
- *ɸiɸlāti Proto-Celtic
- *Háȷ́ati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- agir Occitan
- *agō Proto-Italic
- *gezō Proto-Italic
- agnus Lithuanian
- *aja- fiu-pro
- ag·ir Franco-Provençal
- *ekäñye- Proto-Tocharian
- *āk Proto-Tocharian
- *āk- Proto-Tocharian
- agō
- ācta
- cogo
- aeger
- actor
- agēns
- abigo
- āctiō
- reago
- purgo
- adigo
- actus
- āctus
- gesto
- āctor
- agmen
- exigo
- agīna
- actio
- ingero
- gestus
- degero
- examen
- redigo
- agilis
- indago
- oggero
- *agīre
- perago
- subigo
- actito
- ambigo
- auriga
- cōgēns
- congero
- exactus
- ambages
- progero
- āctōrem
- indiges
- adagium
- coactus
- prodigo
- activus
- agendus
- agenda
- exigēns
- castigo
- agitatus
- gestatio
- dīgestus
- transigo
- ambiguus
- praegero
- congestĭō
- cogitatio
- castīgāre
- exigentia
- circumago
- intergero
- gesticulatus