surrogate

English

Etymology

From Latin surrogatus, perfect passive participle of surrogare (“ask”); a variant of subrogare, from sub (“under”) + rogare (“ask”).

Pronunciation

• (adjective and noun): IPA: /ˈsʌɹəɡɨt/
• (verb): IPA: /ˈsʌɹəɡeɪt/

Noun

surrogate (plural surrogates)

1. A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
2. A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate mother.
3. (chiefly UK) A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
4. (US law): A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
5. A surrogate or surrogate key is a unique identifier for either an entity in the modeled world or an object in the database.
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.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:substitute

Translations

A substitute

Catalan: suplent (ca) m., substitut (ca) m. 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.

Italian: surrogato (it) m. Spanish: sustituto (es) m.

A person or animal that acts as a substitute for another

French: substitut (fr) m., personne de substitution (fr) f.

A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage

US law: A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction

Surrogate key

German: Surrogat {n}, Surrogatschlüssel {m}

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French: remplaçant (person), succédané m. German: Ersatz m.

Portuguese: substituto (person), m. Serbo-Croatian: zamenički

Adjective

surrogate (comparative more surrogate, superlative most surrogate)

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

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; appoint a successor.

Synonyms

• deputize
• foster
• replace
• subrogate
• substitute

See also

• surrogatum

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Italian

Adjective

surrogate f.

1. feminine plural form of surrogato

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Latin

Verb

surrogāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of surrogō