Definitions
Origin; place something comes from
Word origin
From Middle English sours, from Old French sorse (“rise, beginning, spring, source”), from sors, past participle of sordre, sourdre, from Latin surgō (“to rise”), which is composed of sub- (“up from below”) + regō (“lead, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root *h₃reǵ-. Doublet of surge.
Used in a sentence
“The accused refused to reveal the source of the illegal drugs she was selling.”
“More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.”
“The main sources of the Euphrates River are the Karasu and Murat Rivers.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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