HOW TO PRONOUNCE
ergo
/ˈɛɚɡoʊ/
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What does ergo mean?
adverb
- Consequently, therefore, or thus.
conjunction
- therefore (especially in syllogisms)
noun
- (slang) Clipping of ergometer (rowing machine).
More meanings (1)
noun
- (informal) An ergonomic factor or characteristic.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛɚɡoʊ/
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But I pray you, ergo, old man, ergo, I beseech you, talk you of young Master Launcelet?
“The Church,” they say, “chose only four gospels. The Church might have chosen more. Ergo the Church is above the Gospel.”
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“Ergo, for a country schoolmaster to be refused the hand of a Dutch heiress is a certain step to high preferment in the state.”
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.
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.