Arisen
verbThe past participle of arise: having come into being, appeared, or emerged, often used of problems or situations.
How to spell arisen
6 letters · 3 syllables
How to pronounce arisen
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What does arisen mean?
- verbThe past participle of arise: having come into being, appeared, or emerged, often used of problems or situations.
Arisen in a sentence
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A serious dispute had arisen between the two departments.
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Several complications have arisen since the contract was signed.
Where does arisen come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
Arisen is the past participle of the verb arise, which descends directly from the Old English arisan, meaning 'to get up, stand up, or come into being'. That verb was formed from the prefix a-, an old intensifying element related to 'up' or 'out', joined to risan, the ancestor of the modern verb 'rise'. The same risan root sits behind everyday words such as 'rise', 'raise', and 'rouse', all sharing the basic idea of upward motion. Over the centuries the literal sense of physically getting up broadened into the figurative meaning of problems, opportunities, or questions coming into existence. Because the word keeps the strong-verb pattern of Germanic English (rise, rose, risen), the participle ends in -en rather than the regular -ed, which is the small spelling point worth remembering.
How the word is built
- a- (Old English intensive prefix)
- risen (past participle of rise)
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