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erguer.

to lift up, elevate

6 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/eʁˈɡe(ʁ)/Brazil[eɦˈɡe(h)]Brazil/eɾˈɡe(ɾ)/São-Paulo/eʁˈɡe(ʁ)/Rio-de-Janeiro

  1. to lift up, elevate

    transitive

  2. to build, erect

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese erger, from Vulgar Latin *ergere, from Latin ērigere. The modern verb has been rebuilt around the conjugation ergo (“I raise”), hence the other inflexions now all have /ɡ/ rather than the /ʒ/ one would expect from medieval forms like erger. Galician erguer and Spanish erguir were rebuilt in the same manner. Doublet of erigir, which was borrowed from Latin.

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