insurgent

From Latin īnsurgentem, accusative singular of īnsurgēns, present active participle of īnsurgō (“I rise up against, revolt”), from in (“against”) + surgō (“I rise”), itself from sub (“up from below”) + regō (“I guide, direct, rule, govern, administer”), from Proto-Indo-European *reg- (“to move in a straight line, to rule, guide, lead straight, put right”).

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insurgent (not comparable)

1. Rebellious, opposing authority.
   • 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic:

     The insurgent provinces.

2. Of water: surging or rushing in.
   • 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 33:

     Vesuvio groans through all his echoing caves, / And Etna thunders o'er the insurgent waves.

insurgent (plural insurgents)

1. One of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency.

• retunings, unresting

From Latin īnsurgentem.

• Rhymes: -ent

insurgent m (plural insurgents)

1. insurgent

• insurgència

insurgent m or f (masculine and feminine plural insurgents)

1. insurgent

• “insurgent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “insurgent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “insurgent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “insurgent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

insurgent

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of insurger

īnsurgent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of īnsurgō

Borrowed from Latin insurgens or German Insurgent.

insurgent m (plural insurgenți)

1. insurgent