sunrise English · revision 39503

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=compound|attested=c. 1400, Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * US: /ˈsʌnɹaɪz/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|en|sun|rise]].^(OED 2026)^(Etymonline) The OED takes the second part as the noun, Etymonline as the verb.^(OED 2026)^(Etymonline) Merriam-Webster, the Shorter Oxford and Etymonline think it grew out of Middle English clauses such as "before the sun rise", in which ''rise'' is the verb in the subjunctive,^(MWU 2024)^(SOED 2002)^(Etymonline) and the OED allows that such clauses may have been partly reanalysed as a noun.^(OED 2026) The older words were [[sunrising]], from the mid-13th century, and [[sunrist]], from the mid-14th.^(Etymonline)^(MED)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The time in the morning when the sun appears above the horizon: about 1400, in a copy of Chaucer's ''Treatise on the Astrolabe'' (1391).^(OED 2026) Etymonline dates it to the mid-15th century,^(Etymonline) Merriam-Webster to the 15th century^(MWU 2024) and Dictionary.com to 1300–50.^(Dictionary.com 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In 1440 the ''Promptorium Parvulorum'' has it for the sun's appearance itself, and the word later covered the colours and light of the sky at that moment, seen as a spectacle.^(OED 2026) It could also mean the direction of sunrise, the east,^(Etymonline)^(SOED 2002) as the earlier ''sunrist'' did.^(MED) The figurative sense, the beginning or first rise of something, is recorded from 1623.^(OED 2026) In 1890 an American newspaper used it for a yellowish pink colour.^(OED 2026) In the late 20th century, ''sunrise industry'' named a new and expanding industry, especially in electronics and computing,^(SOED 2002)^(Collins 2023) and Merriam-Webster gives an adjective meaning "newly created and growing".^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * mid-13th century – ''sunrising''.^(Etymonline)

+ * mid-14th century – ''sunrist''.^(Etymonline)

+ * c. 1400 – the time when the sun rises (Chaucer).^(OED 2026)

+ * 1440 – the appearance of the sun; the colours in the sky.^(OED 2026)

+ * 1623 – figurative, a beginning.^(OED 2026)

+ * 1890 – a yellowish pink colour.^(OED 2026)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The daily appearance of the sun above the [[horizon]]; [[dawn]].^(Collins 2023)^(AHD 2024)^(MWU 2024)

+ # The time at which this happens.^(Collins 2023)^(OED 2026)

+ # The colours and light in the sky as the sun rises.^(AHD 2024)^(OED 2026)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(figurative)'' A beginning or emergence.^(AHD 2024)^(MWU 2024)^(OED 2026)

+ # A yellowish pink colour.^(OED 2026)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of an industry or technology: new and growing: ''a sunrise business''.^(Collins 2023)^(MWU 2024)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sunrise service]]

+ * [[tequila sunrise]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sunset]]

+ * [[sunup]]

+ * [[daybreak]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}