surgo

Latin

Alternative forms

• subrigo

Etymology

From subrigo, surrigo, from sub- (“up from below”) +‎ rego (“lead, rule”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /surɡ/, [s̠ʊrɡ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /surɡ/, [surɡ]

Verb

1. (intransitive) I rise, get up, I arise
   • 4th c., Jerome, Canticum Canticorum

     Surge, properā, amīca mea, formōsa mea, et venī.

     Arise, hurry up, my beloved, my beautiful, and come.

Derived terms

• assurgō
• cōnsurgō
• dēsurgō
• exsurgō
• īnsurgō
• praesurgō
• prosurgō
• resurgō

Descendants

• Asturian: surdir
• Catalan: sorgir
• English: surge
• Old French: sourdre
  • French: sourdre, surgir (borrowing)

• Galician: xurdir
• Italian: sorgere
• Portuguese: surgir, surdir
• Spanish: surdir, surgir

References

• “surgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “surgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• surgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to rise from one's bed, get up: e lecto or e cubīli surgere