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surgere
Latin · ancient
"to rise, get up"
literally 'to rise up', from sub- 'up from below' and regere 'to guide'
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sortir
French · 1500s
"a going out; an attack by the besieged on besiegers"
the feminine past participle was nominalized for troops rushing out of a besieged position
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Stage 3 of 3
sortie
English · 1778-1918
"a mission flown by one military aircraft"
kept its siege-warfare sense, then in the First World War was extended to a single flight by a military aircraft
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