| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| supererogate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | su·per·er·o·gate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s  p r- r -g t |
| INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: su·per·er·o·gat·ed, su·per·er·o·gat·ing, su·per·er·o·gates
To do more than is required, ordered, or expected. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin super rogre, superrogt-, to spend over and above : Latin super-, super- + Latin rogre, to spend ( -, ex-, ex- + rogre, to ask; see reg- in Appendix I). | | OTHER FORMS: | super·ero·gation (-gshn) —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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