surgo

• IPA^(key): /ˈsur.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -urɡo
• Hyphenation: sùr‧go

surgo

1. first-person singular present indicative of surgere

• subrigō (only in the archaic transitive usage)

From subrigō, surrigō, from sub- (“up from below”) +‎ regō (“lead, rule”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsur.ɡoː/, [ˈs̠ʊrɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsur.ɡo/, [ˈsurɡo]

surgō (present infinitive surgere, perfect active surrēxī, supine surrēctum); third conjugation

1. (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.

   • ‘’Exsurge, Domine, et iudica causam Tuam; Memor esto improperiorum tuorum, Eorum quae ab insipiente sunt tota Die’’
2. (archaic, transitive) to lift up, to straighten

   Synonyms: levō, allevō, ēlevō, ērigō, excellō, scandō, ēvehō, efferō, sublīmō, tollō, ēdō

   Antonyms: abiciō, dēiciō

3. (of things) to rise in growth, to spring up, grow up; to rise in building, be built
   • 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.)

• “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