Etymology

From ex- (“out of, from”) +‎ legō (“choose, select, appoint”)Category:Latin terms prefixed with ex-#LEGO.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈeː.lɪ.ɡoː]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#ELIGOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#ELIGO
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.li.ɡo]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#ELIGOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#ELIGO

Verb

ēligō (present infinitive ēligere, perfect active ēlēgī, supine ēlēctum)Category:Latin lemmas#ELIGOCategory:Latin verbs#ELIGOCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ELIGOCategory:Pages with entries#ELIGOCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ELIGO; third conjugation

1. to choose, to pluck or root out, extract
2. (figuratively, of persons or things) to pick out, choose, elect

   Synonyms: adoptō, optō, dēstinō, dēligō, dēsūmō, sēpōnō, legō, sūmō, capiō, creō

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “eligere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to choose one from a large number of instances: ex infinita exemplorum copia unum (pauca) sumere, decerpere (eligere)
    
  • to elect to the senate: in senatum legere, eligere
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook