adgregare

Adgregare is a Latin verb of the first conjugation meaning to bring together, to gather toward, or to assemble. It conveys the sense of drawing people or things into a group or toward a location, and can also imply accumulation or crowding.

Etymology and semantics: the form is built from ad- “toward” and greg- from the root grex, gregis “flock, herd.” The combination yields a sense of directing a group to join or converge. It is related to other Latin terms in the greg- family, such as congregō and aggrōpō, which share the idea of gathering or assembling.

Morphology and principal parts: adgregō, adgregāre, adgregāvī, adgregātum. This places it in the 1st conjugation. The verb appears in various tenses with standard 1st-conjugation endings, and has participles such as adgregāns and adgregātus, as well as a supine adgregātum.

Usage: adgregare is primarily found in literary and semi-technical Latin rather than everyday speech. It is used in contexts describing people or things being drawn together, troops being assembled, or supporters being gathered toward a cause. In translation, it is commonly rendered as “to gather,” “to bring together,” “to crowd toward,” or “to assemble,” with nuance depending on whether the emphasis is on proximity, organization, or accumulation.

See also: congregō, aggrēgō, greg- roots in Latin vocabulary.