English
exurgent
Exurgent comes from Latin exurgens ‘squeezing out’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexurgens‘squeezing out’
- Englishearliest quotation 1619exurgent
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexurgens‘squeezing out’
- Englishearliest quotation 1619exurgent
Earliest quotation: 1619, John Favour: “Determining exurgent controuersies in a Synod.”
A compound of exsurgere ‘to rise up’ + surgere ‘to rise’
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- ‘to straighten’
Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti ‘to be straightening, to be setting upright’
Proto-Italic *regō
Latin regō ‘lead, rule’
Latin subrigō ‘to lift up’
Latin surrigō
Latin surgō ‘to rise’
Latin exsurgō ‘to rise up’
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- ‘to straighten’
Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti ‘to be straightening, to be setting upright’
Proto-Italic *regō
Latin regō ‘lead, rule’
Latin subrigō ‘to lift up’
Latin surrigō
Latin surgō ‘to rise’
Every English word from Latin exurgens
Today it means
adj Arising or emergent.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin exurgens / exurgent