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Italian
Pronunciation
Verb
surgo
- first-person singular present indicative of surgere
Latin
Etymology
From subrigō, surrigō, from sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”).
Pronunciation
Verb
surgō (present infinitive surgere, perfect active surrēxī, supine surrēctum); third conjugation
- (intransitive) to rise; to arise; to rise from bed; to get up; to stand up
- Synonyms: ēmergō, assurgō, orior, coorior, oborior
- 4th c., Jerome, Canticum Canticōrum 2:10
Surge, properā, amīca mea, formōsa mea, et venī.- Arise, hurry up, my beloved, my beautiful, and come.
1520, Pope Leo X, Exsurge Domine:Exsurge, Domine, et iudica causam Tuam; Memor esto improperiorum tuorum, Eorum quae ab insipiente sunt tota Die.- Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day.
- (Old Latin, transitive) to lift up; to straighten
- Alternative form: subrigō
- Synonyms: levō, allevō, ēlevō, ērigō, excellō, scandō, ēvehō, efferō, sublīmō, tollō, ēdō
- Antonyms: abiciō, dēiciō
- (of things) to occur; to take place; to arise; to manifest; to spring up
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 4.830:
- ‘auspicibus vōbīs hoc mihi surgat opus.’
- “May this work of mine rise under your auspices.”
(Romulus has marked out the walls of Rome and prays for divine favor.)
- (figurative) to become elevated or prestigious
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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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to rise from one's bed, get up: e lecto or e cubīli surgere