# ungo
## Cebuano
### Alternative forms

* (nonstandard) ongo

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: u‧ngo
* IPA: /ˈʔuŋoʔ/ [ˈʔu.ŋoʔ]

### Noun

ungò
* (folklore) witchlike or vampirelike creature or monster
* (by extension) ghost

### Verb

ungò
* to be the prey or victim to this creature
* (of an ungo) to hunt or attack prey
* to be addicted to something
* to become; to cause to become or to turn into an ungo
* to be haunted by a ghost

#### Synonyms

* balbal, ekek, kikik, wakwak

### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ungo.

### Anagrams

* guno, nuog

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin unguis.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈunɡo]
* Rhymes: -unɡo
* Hyphenation: un‧go

### Noun

ungo (accusative singular ungon, plural ungoj, accusative plural ungojn)
* (anatomy) nail, claw

#### Derived terms

* ungego

## Italian
### Verb

ungo
* first-person singular present indicative of ungere

### Anagrams

* ugno, ugnò

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* unguō

### Etymology

From earlier unguō, from Proto-Italic *ongʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).
Cognates include Sanskrit अनक्ति (anakti, “to oil, anoint”), Sanskrit अञ्जस् (áñjas, “ointment, unguent”), Old Armenian օծ (ōc) and Proto-Germanic *ankwô.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈun.ɡoː/, [ˈʊŋɡoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈun.ɡo/, [ˈuŋɡo]

### Verb

ungō (present infinitive ungere, perfect active ūnxī, supine ūnctum); third conjugation
* to anoint, smear with oil, oil, grease
    Synonyms: dēlibuō, unguentō, inunguō

#### Derived terms

* inungō
* ūnctiō
* unctō
* ūnctum
* ūnctūra
* ūnctus
* unguēdō
* unguen
* unguentum

#### Related terms

* unguentārius
* unguentātus
* unguentō
* unguinōsus

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: ungu, aungu, ung, undziri
** Istro-Romanian: ungu
** Megleno-Romanian: ung, unziri
** Romanian: unge, ungere
** → Albanian: ngjyej
* Dalmatian:
** jongar
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: ungere
    Central dialects: ógne, ógna
    Tuscan: ógnare, úgne, unge
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: unghere, úngiri
** Sicilian: ùnciri
* North Italian:
** Friulian: onzi, ongi (alternative orthography)
** Ladin: onjer, onje
** Lombard: ongg, vongg, vonz, vonze
** Piedmontese: onze, onz, vonze, ogne, vogne
** Venetan: onzer, onxer, ondher, onzar
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: ouendre
** Occitan: ónher (multiple dialects)
    Auvergnat: ónjer, onjir
    Gascon: únher
    Languedocien: únher
    Limousin: ónger
** Old French: oindre
*** French: oindre
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturleonese:
    Asturian: xuncir, xuncer, xoncer
    Leonese: uñir, xunir, uncir
    Salamanca: juñir
** Old Galician-Portuguese: ungir, ongir
*** Galician: unxir, onxir, xuncir, xunguir
*** Portuguese: ungir
* Borrowings:
** → Catalan: ungir
** → Spanish: ungir
** → Old Irish: oingid
*** Irish: ung

### References

* ↑ “ungere” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN

### Further reading

* “ungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ungo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ungo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “ŭnguĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 36

## Swahili
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

ungo class XI (plural nyungo class X)
* winnower (fan for winnowing)