Etymograph

English

ergo

Ergo comes from Latin ergō.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEergō
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500ergo‘thus, consequently, ergo’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1831same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEergō
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500ergo‘thus, consequently, ergo’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1831same form

Earliest quotation: 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley: “I merely made an individual application of a general…”

Every English word from Latin ergō

Today it means

adv Consequently, therefore, or thus.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin ergō / ergo

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