surgir

Meaning

  1. (intransitive) to arise, emerge, surface, crop up, spring up, pop up
  2. (intransitive) to appear
  3. (intransitive) to grow out of, to come from, arise from (followed by de)
  4. to advance, ascent, rise (move up socially or professionally)

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
sur‧gir
Pronounced as (IPA)
/suɾˈxiɾ/
Etymology

In summary

From Latin surgere (“to get up, arise”). Cognate with English surge and source.

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