urgent
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (“to press”).
PronunciationEdit
- (UK, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɜːdʒənt/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɚdʒənt/
Audio (US) (file)
- Hyphenation: ur‧gent
AdjectiveEdit
urgent (comparative more urgent, superlative most urgent)
Usage notesEdit
The primary meaning of urgent is as a description of a pressing need. Especially in journalistic contexts, it is sometimes used by transference to describe the thing needed, or to mean "happening very soon", which some deem erroneous.
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TranslationsEdit
requiring immediate attention
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CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
urgent (masculine and feminine plural urgents)
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Further readingEdit
- “urgent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “urgent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “urgent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “urgent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Late Latin urgens, present participle of urgeō.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
urgent (feminine singular urgente, masculine plural urgents, feminine plural urgentes)
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See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- “urgent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈur.ɡent/, [ˈʊr.ɡɛn̪t̪]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈur.d͡ʒent/, [ˈur.d͡ʒɛn̪t̪]
VerbEdit
urgent
PiedmonteseEdit
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urgent