sortie

Meaning

Noun

1. An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally.
2. An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.
3. An act of venturing out to do a task, etc.
4. An act of trying to enter a new field of activity.
5. An attacking move.
6. An operational flight carried out by a spacecraft involving a return to Earth.
7. Synonym of sally port (“an entry to or opening into a fortification to enable a sally”)
8. A series of aerial photographs taken during the flight of an aircraft; (by extension) a photography session.

Verb

To carry out a sortie; to sally.

Synonyms

sally

assault

charge

dash

💨

egress

escalade

excursion

exit

expenditure

flight

✈️

flying

foray

invasion

issue

leaving

lento

outlet

play

run

sally-port

sprouting

storm

time

⌚

make a sally

trip

way out

debouchment

aggression

march out

campaign

Hyphenated as

sort‧ie

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɔːti/

Etymology

PIE word
*upó
The noun is borrowed from French sortie (“act of exiting; exit, way out; (military) sally, sortie”), the feminine past participle of sortir (“to exit, go out”), from Old French sortir, from Latin sortīrī, the present active infinitive of sortior (“to cast or draw lots; to choose, select; to distribute, divide; to obtain, receive; to share”), from sors (“something used to determine chances, a lot; casting or drawing of lots; decision by lot; a share”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, tie together; a thread”)), possibly influenced by surrēctus (“arisen, having been caused to arise; gotten up, having been gotten up”), the perfect passive participle of surgō (“to arise, get up, rise”), from subrigō (“to lift up; to straighten”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + regō (“to direct, guide, steer; to govern, rule; to manage, oversee”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to right oneself, straighten; just; right”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.