Masculine

surgeon

Meaning

  1. (masculine) shoot (new growth from the trunk of a tree)
  2. (figuratively, masculine) offshoot, rebirth (something that is reborn or grows out of something else again)
  3. (archaic, masculine) offspring, progeny (descendant of someone)

Synonyms

Pronounced as (IPA)
/syʁ.ʒɔ̃/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Middle French sourgon, sourjon, from Old French sorjon, sourjon (“source”) (1200s), from a conjugated form of sourdre (see sourjant) + -on, from Latin surgere. The modern spelling dates from 1541.

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