Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

surrogate

 

1) a deputy; substitute; 2) a woman who, by means of artificial insemination, substitutes for a woman unable to become pregnant

 

The chairman was reluctant to deal with a surrogate on such an important matter.

 

Latin root words: subrogo, subrogare, subrogavi, subrogatus - to put in another’s place; to substitute; rogo, rogare, rogavi, rogatus - to ask 

 

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