surgent

English

Etymology

From Latin surgens, present participle of surgo (“rise, get up”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt

Adjective

surgent (comparative more surgent, superlative most surgent)

  1. Surging; rising.
    • 2008, Gary Bridge, ‎Sophie Watson, A Companion to the City (page 131)
      […] the critical edge of a surgent Marxist scholarship emerged during the early 1970s with an imaginative grandeur and sweeping power.

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

surgent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of surgō
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