surrogate

English

Etymology

From Latin surrogātus, perfect passive participle of surrogō (“ask”); a variant of subrogō, from sub (“under”) + rogō (“ask”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective and noun:

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌɹəɡɪt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝəɡɪt/

Verb:

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌɹəɡeɪt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝəɡeɪt/

Noun

surrogate (plural surrogates)

1. A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:substitute

   A mixture of horseradish and mustard often serves as a surrogate for wasabi.

2. A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate parent.
3. (chiefly British) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
4. (US, politics) A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate.
5. (US law) A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
6. (computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
7. (economics) An ersatz good.
8. (databases) Ellipsis of surrogate key.

Hyponyms

(Unicode codepoint):

• high surrogate
• low surrogate

Derived terms

• audience surrogate
• surrogate activity
• surrogate advertising
• surrogate father
• surrogate key
• surrogate mother
• surrogate pair
• surrogate parent
• surrogate proxy
• surrogateship
• surrogative
• surrogatively
• surrogatum

 

Descendants

• → Dutch: surrogaat

Translations

substitute

• Bulgarian: заместител (bg) (zamestitel)
• Catalan: suplent (ca) m, substitut (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 替代品 (zh) (tìdàipǐn)

• Danish: substitut (da) c, surrogat n
• Dutch: vervanger (nl) m, plaatsvervanger (nl) m, surrogaat (nl) n
• French: remplaçant (fr) m, remplaçante (fr) f, suppléant (fr) m, suppléante (fr) f, substitut (fr) m, substitute (fr) f
• German: Ersatz-, Stellvertreter (de) m, Stellvertreterin (de) f
• Hungarian: helyettesítő (hu), (of an object) pótlék (hu), pótszer (hu), (of a person) helyettes (hu)
• Italian: surrogato (it) m
• Occitan: substitut (oc) m
• Persian: جای‌گزین (jây-gozin)
• Polish: surogat (pl) m, erzac (pl) m
• Portuguese: substituto (pt) m
• Russian: суррога́т (ru) m (surrogát)
• Spanish: sustituto (es) m
• Turkish: vekil (tr), yedek (tr)

person or animal that acts as a substitute for another

• Bulgarian: заместник (bg) m (zamestnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 替代者 (tìdàizhě)

• Finnish: sijainen (fi), korvike (fi)
• French: substitut (fr) m, personne de substitution f
• German: Ersatz (de) m, Substitut (de) n
• Hungarian: pót- (hu), dajka- (hu), (hired, leased) bér- (hu)
• Maori: kōpū whāngai ("womb for hire")
• Occitan: substitut (oc)
• Russian: замести́тель (ru) m (zamestítelʹ), замести́тельница (ru) f (zamestítelʹnica)

deputy for a bishop

• Bulgarian: епископски наместник (episkopski namestnik)

US: judicial officer of limited jurisdiction

surrogate key

• German: Surrogat (de) n, Surrogatschlüssel (de) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} remplaçant (fr) (person), ^{(please verify)} succédané (fr) m
• German: ^{(please verify)} Ersatz (de) m
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} zamenički

Adjective

surrogate (comparative more surrogate, superlative most surrogate)

1. Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute.

Translations

Of, concerning, relating to or acting as a substitute

• Bulgarian: заместващ (bg) (zamestvašt)
• Greek: αναπληρωματικός (el) (anapliromatikós)
• Polish: surogatowy (pl) m, zastępczy (pl) m

Verb

surrogate (third-person singular simple present surrogates, present participle surrogating, simple past and past participle surrogated)

1. (transitive) To replace or substitute something with something else; to appoint a successor.

   Synonyms: deputize, foster, replace, subrogate, substitute

Related terms

• subrogate

 

Translations

to replace or substitute something with something else

• Bulgarian: замествам (bg) (zamestvam)
• Polish: zastępować (pl) impf, zastąpić (pl) pf
• Spanish: subrogar (es) (law)

to appoint a successor

See also

• surrogatum

Anagrams

• outragers

Italian

Adjective

surrogate f

1. feminine plural of surrogato

Latin

Verb

surrogāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of surrogō