sourdre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French sourdre, from Latin surgere (“to get up, arise”). Doublet of surgir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suʁdʁ/

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Verb

sourdre

1. (formal, intransitive) to well up

Conjugation

• Almost exclusively used in the third person (singular and plural) of present and imperfect tenses.
  • sourd, sourdent
  • sourdait, sourdaient

Further reading

• “sourdre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Alternative forms

• surdre (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Latin surgere, present active infinitive of surgō.

Verb

sourdre

1. to spurt; to gush (as in a liquid)
   • late 12th century, anonymous author, “La Folie de Tristan d'Oxford”, in Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 394, line 703:

     Mult valt funteine ki ben surt

     A fountain that spurts is very valuable

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• French: sourdre
• → Middle English: sourden, sourde
  • English: sourd (obsolete)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (sourdre)