Arisen

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /əˈɹɪzən/

Definitions

1. Something that has happened or come into being ; to have moved from lying down to a standing position
2. Describes events that have taken place or situations that have developed ; refers to the act of rising from a seated or lying posture
3. Indicates something that has begun or appeared ; means to have stood up or gotten out of bed or a lower position

Etymology: Arisen is the form of "arise" used after "have" or "be," as in "the problems have arisen." The verb goes back to Old English "ārīsan," which meant "to get up, rise, spring up," and could also mean "to spring from" or "originate." Its roots run deep in Germanic: it is built from the prefix "a-" and the ordinary verb "rise," and its relatives appear in Scots, Middle Low German, Old High German and Gothic, where the same pattern of meaning holds. The sense of "coming into being" grew out of the older physical sense of getting up or ascending. A thing that rises up from the ground or from sleep and a problem that rises up in a situation share a picture of emergence, and English kept both. In Middle English, "arisen" lived alongside "sourden" and "sorden," borrowed from Old French "sordre" and "sourdre," meaning "to arise, originate, fly up," but "arise" eventually replaced those words and drove them out of use.

Synonyms: emerged, surfaced, appeared, materialized, come up

Antonyms: vanished, disappeared, subsided, dissipated, declined