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“rise” in Latin
surgōto rise; to arise; to rise from bed; to get up; to stand up; to lift up; to straighten; to occur; to take place; to arisexsurgōto rise or stand up; to recover (strength); to be risencōnsurgōto rise or stand up; to ambush; to rise togetherlevōto raise, elevate, lift up; to make light, lighten; to relieve, ease, comfortoriorto rise, get up; to appear, arise, become visible; to be born, come to exist, originateexoriorto come out or forth, appear; to become; to beginēmergōto emerge (from the water); to surface; to arise or come forthanimuslife, life force, soul, vitality (that life-giving aspect which animates a thing); conscience, intellect, mind, reason, succurrōto help, aid, succor; to run to help, to run to the aid of, hasten to assist; to run beneath, go under; to undergorevīvīscōto revive (be restored to life)
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
rise v.
PROP., surgere: exsurgere: consurgere (especially of several): se erigere (to raise one’s self up; of little children trying to raise themselves from the ground): from a seat, surgere e sella: to rise up (when a person appears), assurgere alicui (as a mark of respect): from bed, surgere, with or without (e) lectulo or (e) lecto: surgere cubitu (PROP.: ex morbo assurgere, of leaving one’s bed after a disease): from table, surgere a cena; also poscere calceos (asking for one’s shoes as a sign of intending to rise from table).
To mount up on high, se levare (of birds; pennis or alis): levari: sublime ferri: sublimem abire. Clouds rise, nebulae levantur in nubes: the smoke rises from the cottages, fumus evolvitur e tuguriis. The barometer rises, *argentum vivum barometri tollitur. A storm rises, tempestas cooritur.
To swell, Vid:
(Of the heavenly bodies)(Of the heavenly bodies), oriri: exoriri: emergere (of the stars; not of the sun).
(Of thoughts in the mind)(Of thoughts in the mind), subire mentem or animum: succurrere. A thought rises in my mind, subit cogitatio animum.
(From the dead)(From the dead), reviviscere: in vitam redire: ab inferis exsistere: ab Orco in lucem reducem fieri (according to heathen notions): ab inferis excitari or revocari.
(Of the day)(Of the day), appetere: dies appetit: lucescit: dilucescit: illucescit. As soon as the sun rose, ubi primum illuxit.
To rise in the stomach (of food), ructum ciere, movere, or facere.
To rise in blisters, pustulari.
Figuratively, To come into notice, appear, prodire: exsistere: se efferre (of eminent men): exoriri (of remarkable persons or things, whether good or bad; e.g., libido; ferrea proles; Sulla; ultor, etc.).
To advance in rank or dignity, procedere honoribus longius; altiorem ascendere gradum; in ampliorem gradum provehi; altiorem dignitatis gradum consequi: to rise above others, alios superare, vincere, post se relinquere. To rise to the highest pitch of human greatness, in summum fastigium emergere et attolli.
To rebel, exsurgere contra or adversus aliquem (Tac.); cooriri in aliquem: imperium alicujus detrectare: consurgere ad bellum: ad bellum cooriri: rebellare (the proper word of those who had been subdued). [Vid. REBEL, REVOLT.]
To mount up, become higher, (of prices), cariorem fieri: pretium alicujus rei excandescit: incendi: ingravescere: crescere: augeri (of the price of corn; annona).
To advance to anything (= to pass from a lower to a higher point), transire ad aliquid. To rise from the necessary arts to the arts of luxury, a necessariis artificiis ad elegantiores defluere (Cic., Tusc. 1, 25, 62).
To flow or proceed (from), to be generated (by), fluere, manare, proficisci, nasci, gigni, exsistere, erumpere, ex aliqua re: oriri (general term): scaturire: excurrere: from a place, ex (of springs, fountains, etc.: on excurrere. Vid: Curt., 3, 1, 3): profluere (of streams, fountains, etc.): originem habere (of streams): sequi aliquid (to result from anything).
To raise itself (of things), se tollere: se attollere: surgere: assurgere: exsurgere. A hill that rises gradually, clementer editus (or assurgens) collis: rising a little from the plain, paullum ex planitie editus: not to be able to rise higher, se tollere a terra altius non posse (of plants).
rise s.
(Of the heavenly bodies)(Of the heavenly bodies), ortus, exortus (of all the heavenly bodies): ascensus, emersus (of the planets or other stars; the former especially of the moon). The rising and setting of the stars, siderum ortus et occasus; siderum ortus et obitus: at sunrise, sole oriente; sub luce. A little before sunrise, sub ortum lucis.
Rising ground, clivus leniter assurgens.
Source, origin, fons: causa: initium: caput. To give rise to, efficere; occasionem praebere. Vid: CAUSE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for rise?
- The usual Latin words for “rise” are surgō, exsurgō, cōnsurgō; also levō, orior, exorior. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.