Arose

How to spell arose

5 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce arose

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does arose mean?

1. verbPast tense of arise: came into existence, occurred, or emerged.
2. verbPast tense of arise: got up or rose from a seated or lying position.

Arose in a sentence

• A dispute arose over who would pay the final invoice.

• She arose from her chair to greet the visitors.

• Several questions arose during the budget meeting.

• He arose before dawn to catch the early train.

Where does arose come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

Arose is the past tense of the verb arise, which comes from the Old English ārīsan, a compound of the intensifying prefix ā- (broadly meaning 'up' or 'out') and rīsan, the ordinary verb 'to rise' or 'to go up'. The literal sense was therefore 'to rise up' or 'to get up', a meaning still felt today when something arises from a sitting position or a problem arises from nowhere. The strong-verb pattern, where the vowel changes rather than adding -ed, is why the past tense is arose and the past participle is arisen, mirroring rise, rose, risen. The same Germanic root gives us 'rise' itself and lies behind the noun 'rising'. Because the spelling follows the simple rise/rose vowel shift, the chief trap is keeping it distinct from the unrelated word 'arouse', whose past tense is the very different 'aroused'.

How the word is built

• a- (up, from Old English ā-)
• rose (past tense of rise, from Old English rīsan: to go up)