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sortir

Pronunciation: [surˈti]

“sortir” is a Catalan word. Its 6 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to go out, to leave
  2. to go out (to leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment)
  3. to come out, to appear, to emerge
  4. to come out, to be published, to be made known
  5. to end up, to turn out
  6. to manage to get out of a difficult situation successfully (requires a reflexive pronoun according the subject, and the appropriate form of the adverbial pronoun en)

In Catalan

  1. Passar a fora.
  2. Sorgir, aparèixer
  3. Desplaçar-se, un porter, en direcció a un adversari que controla la pilota, la bola o el disc amb opcions de marcar, amb la intenció de prendre-l'hi o dificultar-li el xut cap a la porteria.

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan sortir (compare Occitan sortir), from Latin sortīrī (“select”), probably influenced by surrectus (through a Vulgar Latin form *surctus and its derivatives, possibly through a verb *surrectīre, surctīre; cf. also Old Catalan surt, surta).

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