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#971 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to rise, get up; to arise, spring up

Examples

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The sun rises in the morning.

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He rose and went away.

Surgite .

Get up and go.

surgam.

On the third day I shall rise.

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A great shout arose from the crowd.

Surgo, surgere, surrexi, surrectum, third conjugation. The perfect looks wrong until you know the word is a squeezed subrigo, "raise up from below": sub plus rego. Once the b has assimilated and the vowel has gone, surrexi is exactly what you would expect.

It covers getting out of bed, standing up from a chair, and anything that comes into being - a wind, a shout, a quarrel, a rumour. In this corpus it carries the resurrection more often than not, and resurgo is the same verb with re- on the front. Spanish surgir and English surge, source and insurrection all descend from it.

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This word is part of lesson 20.