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ergo

/ˈɛɚɡoʊ/

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What does ergo mean?

adverb

  1. Consequently, therefore, or thus.

conjunction

  1. therefore (especially in syllogisms)

noun

  1. (slang) Clipping of ergometer (rowing machine).
More meanings (1)

noun

  1. (informal) An ergonomic factor or characteristic.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈɛɚɡoʊ/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˈɝɡoʊ/
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But I pray you, ergo, old man, ergo, I beseech you, talk you of young Master Launcelet?
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
“The Church,” they say, “chose only four gospels. The Church might have chosen more. Ergo the Church is above the Gospel.”
Martin LutherCommentary on the Epistle to the GalatiansTranslated by Theodore GraebnerProject Gutenberg ebook #1549
More book examples (3)
Ergo, for a country schoolmaster to be refused the hand of a Dutch heiress is a certain step to high preferment in the state.”
Washington IrvingThe Legend of Sleepy HollowProject Gutenberg ebook #41
Cogito, ergo sum,--I think, therefore I am immortal, that is the corollary, the translation of Ego sum qui sum: philosophy is in accord with the Bible.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonSystem of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of MiseryProject Gutenberg ebook #444
But in Magellan strait we are violently driven back westward, ergo through the north-western strait or Anian frith shall we not be able to return eastward: it followeth not.
Richard HakluytVoyages in Search of the North-West PassageProject Gutenberg ebook #3482