surrogate

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

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

surrogate (plural surrogates)

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

   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 mother.
3. (chiefly Britain) 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 interstate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
5. (computing) Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.

• See also Thesaurus:substitute

surrogate (comparative more surrogate, superlative most surrogate)

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

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.

• deputize, foster, replace, subrogate, substitute

• surrogatum

• outragers

surrogate f

1. feminine plural of surrogato

surrogāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of surrogō