Other forms: egos
Your ego is your sense of your own worth and importance. A huge ego, bruise his ego, ego and pride.
In Freud it means something narrower and neutral: the part of the mind that negotiates between desire and reality. In ordinary speech it means vanity, and having an ego is a complaint. The word is simply the Latin for I, chosen by Freud's translator.
1nounegoYour sense of your own worth and importance.
“Losing the match to his younger brother really hurt his ego.”
ego is a sense of self.
Latin ego means I. Freud wrote das Ich, the I, and his English translator chose the Latin word.
Latin
ego — I
English, today
ego
Built from
Borrowed from Latin ego (“I”). Chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Ich as a noun for this concept from the pronoun ich (“I”). a doublet of I and Ich.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA