surtir

Borrowed from French sortir. Doublet of sortir, an inheritance.

• Hyphenation: sur‧tir

surtir (first-person singular present surto, first-person singular preterite surti, past participle surtido)

1. (transitive) to cause, to produce (an effect, an impact, a consequence, etc.); to have as a result

   surtir efeito ― to bring results, to prove effective, to have an impact

2. (intransitive) to turn out (well or badly)

• sortir

Probably from surto, or from a Vulgar Latin *surctīre < *surrēctīre, from Latin surrēctus, perfect passive participle of surgō (cf. Spanish surgir and Portuguese surdir). Compare also Latin sortīrī.

• IPA^(key): /suɾˈtiɾ/
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: sur‧tir

surtir (first-person singular present surto, first-person singular preterite surtí, past participle surtido)

1. (intransitive) to provide

   Los árboles nos surten de oxígeno

   Trees provide us with oxygen

2. to furnish, to stock
3. to spurt, to shoot up

• “surtir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10