assurgent

English

Etymology

From Latin assurgens, present participle of assurgo (“rise up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɜː(ɹ).dʒənt/
  • (General American) /əˈsɚ.dʒənt/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt

Adjective

assurgent (comparative more assurgent, superlative most assurgent)

1. Rising or tending to rise.
2. (heraldry) Rising out of the sea.
   • 1869, Robert Cooke, The Visitation of London in the Year 1568: Taken by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms, and Since Augmented Both with Descents and Arms, page 51:

     A seahorse assurgent per pale or and azure, crined gules.

3. (botany) Curving upward.

Derived terms

• assurgency

References

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]

Latin

Verb

assurgent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of assurgō