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Definition: Iago |
IagoNoun1. The villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Iago" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the heel holder", "a supplanter". |
Date "Iago" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references) |
"Iago" is a common misspelling or typo for: ago, image, imago, sago. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Iago [Yago or E-a'-go ]. Othello's ensign or ancient. He hated the Moor both because Cassio, a Florentine, was preferred to the lieutenancy instead of himself, and also from a suspicion that the Moor had tampered with his wife; but he concealed his hatred so well that Othello wholly trusted him. Iago persuaded Othello that Desdemona intrigued with Cassio, and urged him on till he murdered his bride. His chief argument was that Desdemona had given Cassio a pocket-handkerchief, the fact being that Iago had set on his wife to purloin it. After the death of Desdemona, Emilia (Iago's wife) revealed the fact, and Iago was arrested. Shakespeare generally makes three syllables of the name, as - "Let it not gall your patience, good I-a-go. Left in the conduct of the bold I-a-go. ii.2. 'Tis one I-a-go, ancient to the general." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The name Iago is a form of Jacob and James.
Shakespeare contrasts Iago against Othello's nobility and integrity of character.
While the play suggests motives for Iago's hateful scheming, many readers feel that a deeper root remains unhidden. Iago cites suspicion that his wife has been unfaithful to him with Othello or bitterness that Othello passed him up for a big promotion. Whatever his deepest motivation, his hatred towards the Moor is unwavering and moves the action of the play forward. Some modern directors interpret Iago's hate as racism.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Iago."
Crosswords: Iago |
| Specialty definitions using "Iago": Cassio ♦ Roderigo. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Iago" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Welsh (James). |
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Screenplays | Faster Iago, faster! (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements) | |
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| "Iago" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.48% of the time. "Iago" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 90.48% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.52% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Iago" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the heel holder", "a supplanter". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Iago." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Coby | Male | N/A | Jacob |
| Jacobina | Female | N/A | Jacob |
| James | Male | Biblical | Jacob |
| Jago | Male | Cornish | Jacob |
| Jakov | Male | Croatian | Jacob |
| Jakub | Male | Czech | Jacob |
| Ib | Male | Danish | Jacob |
| Jacobine | Female | Danish | Jacob |
| Jaap | Male | Dutch | Jacob |
| Jacob | Male | Dutch | N/A |
| Jacoba | Female | Dutch | Jacob |
| Jacobine | Female | Dutch | Jacob |
| Jacob | Male | English | N/A |
| James | Male | English | Jacob |
| Jaycob | Male | English | Jacob |
| Jeb | Male | English | Jacob |
| Jaakko | Male | Finnish | Jacob |
| Jouko | Male | Finnish | Jacob |
| Jacques | Male | French | Jacob |
| Jakob | Male | German | Jacob |
| Iakopa | Male | Hawaiian | Jacob |
| Jákob | Male | Hungarian | Jacob |
| Jakab | Male | Hungarian | Jacob |
| Giacobbe | Male | Italian | Jacob |
| Jacopo | Male | Italian | Jacob |
| Kapel | Male | Jewish | Jacob |
| Koppel | Male | Jewish | Jacob |
| Yakov | Male | Jewish | Jacob |
| Yankel | Male | Jewish | Jacob |
| Jacobine | Female | Norwegian | Jacob |
| Jakub | Male | Polish | Jacob |
| Kuba | Male | Polish | Jacob |
| Yakov | Male | Russian | Jacob |
| Jacob | Male | Scandinavian | N/A |
| Jakob | Male | Scandinavian | Jacob |
| Jaka | Male | Slovene | Jacob |
| Iago | Male | Spanish | Jacob |
| Jacobo | Male | Spanish | Jacob |
| Iago | Male | Welsh | Jacob |
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Ending with "Iago": Boling-Iago. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
iago | 48 |
iago othello | 14 |
iago shakespeare | 3 |
aladdin iago | 2 |
iago zazu | 2 |
iago wife | 2 |
iago in othello | 2 |
iago picture | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "iago"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | iagoay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words containing "Iago": diagonal, diagonalizable, diagonalization, diagonalizations, diagonalize, diagonalized, diagonalizes, diagonalizing, diagonally, diagonals. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: agio. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-o" | |
-1 letter: ago, goa. | |
-2 letters: ag, ai, go. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-o" | |
+1 letter: agios, amigo, gonia, imago, logia. | |
+2 letters: adagio, agonic, agouti, algoid, amigos, bagnio, biogas, dialog, gabion, gadoid, galiot, ganoid, giaour, gitano, glioma, gloria, goalie, hoagie, imagos, latigo, loggia, oaring, ogival, onagri, orgiac, origan, virago. | |
+3 letters: aboding, adagios, adoring, agatoid, agitato, agnosia, agonies, agonise, agonist, agonize, agoutis, airglow, angioma, antilog, apogeic, argotic, atoning, autoing, avowing, bagnios, begonia, boating, choragi, coaling, coaming, coating, coaxing, coinage, dadoing, dialogs, doating, eulogia, foaling, foaming, foliage, gabions, gadoids, galiots, galipot, galliot, ganoids, gaoling, gaposis, garboil, geoidal, giaours, gigaton, girasol, gitanos, gliomas, glorias, goading, goalies, goaling, goatish, goliard, gonadic, gonidia, gorilla, gourami, haloing, hidalgo, hoagies, hoaxing, imagoes, isagoge, isogamy, isogram, jigaboo, kayoing, latigos, loading, loafing, loaming, loaning, logania, loggias, logical, moaning, moating, oghamic, okaying, oogonia, orating, organic, origami, origans, otalgia, otalgic, ouguiya, outgain, pigboat, pignora, pogonia, roaming, roaring, signora, soaking, soaping, soaring, soilage, valgoid, viragos, zingano, zingaro. | |
+4 letters: aborning, aborting, adopting, adorning, agiotage, agitator, agitprop, agnation, agnomina, agnosias, agnostic, agonised, agonises, agonists, agonized, agonizes, agouties, agrimony, airglows, algorism, allowing, alloying, alogical, amidogen, anagogic, analogic, anginose, anginous, angiomas, annoying, antilogs, antilogy, antismog, apagogic, apiology, apogamic, apologia, apposing, aproning, argosies, armigero, armoring, arousing, arpeggio, arrowing, assignor, autogiro, avigator, avoiding, axiology, begonias, bigamous, bigaroon, bignonia, biogases, bloating, boarding, boasting, boatings, borating, bravoing, cajoling, cambogia, cameoing, canoeing, caroling, caroming, choragic, cloaking, coaching, coacting, coamings, coapting, coasting, coatings, cogitate, coinages, collegia, comaking, congaing, contagia, coxalgia, coxalgic, croaking, diagnose, diagonal, dialoged, dialoger, dialogic, dialogue, digamous, dogmatic, donating, egomania, esophagi, eulogiae, eulogias, exogamic, fagoting, favoring, flamingo, floating, foliaged, foliages, foraging, foraying, gabbroic, gabbroid, galipots, galliots, gallipot, galoping, ganglion, garboils, garoting, garrison, gasiform, gasolier, gasoline, gelation, geotaxis, geraniol, gigaflop, gigatons, girasole, girasols, gladiola, gladioli, gliomata, gloaming, gloating, glossina, gloxinia, gnathion, gnomical, goadlike, goatfish, goatlike, goatskin, goliards, gonadial, gonidial, gorillas, gouramis, gracioso, gracious, graffito, graviton, grazioso, groaning, guaiacol, guaiocum, gynoecia, gyration, gyroidal, halloing, hidalgos, highroad, hoarding, hollaing, homaging, hooligan, ibogaine, idealogy, ideogram, ignorami, ignorant, intaglio, iodating, isagoges, isagogic, isogonal, isograft, isograms, isograph, jigaboos, kaoliang, kilogram, laboring, lassoing, latigoes, legation, ligation, loadings, loanings, loathing, locating, logician, longhair, magnolia, majoring, mamboing, marigold, masoning, miaouing, miaowing, migrator, misogamy, negation, nonimage, notating, obligate, obligati, obligato, oghamist, oligarch, oliguria, oogamies, oogonial, opaquing, opiating, orangier, orangish, organdie, organics, organise, organism, organist, organize, orgasmic, orgastic, origamis, origanum, original, otalgias, otalgies, ouguiyas, outgains, pangolin, paroling, picogram, pigboats, pignolia, pilotage, poaching, podagric, pogonias, poignant, polkaing, pomading, prodigal, progeria, radioing, ravigote, razoring, regional, rigadoon, rigatoni, rigaudon, roaching, roarings, roasting, rogation, rotating, salvoing, savoring, seagoing, seraglio, shoaling, signoras, skoaling, soarings, soilages, solacing, solating, solidago, spoilage, tabooing, taboring, tangoing, toadying, toasting, totaling, trigonal, troaking, uropygia, vamosing, vaporing, viragoes, voyaging, wagoning, waygoing, womaning. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 61 67 6F |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. .- --. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01100001 01100111 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I a g o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0061 0067 006F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43677381 |
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