urgent
English Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”). Related to German würgen (“to strangle”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string, tighten, constrict”), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, “to open”, literally “to untie”), Polish otwierać (“to open”)) and English worry, wring, wreak, wreck.
Pronunciation Edit
- (UK, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɝ.d͡ʒənt/
Audio (US) (file)
- Hyphenation: ur‧gent
Adjective Edit
urgent (comparative more urgent, superlative most urgent)
- Requiring immediate attention.
- Of people: insistent, solicitous.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus XII::
- The Egyptians were vrgent vpon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste.
- c. 1794, Jane Austen, “[Lady Susan.]”, in J[ames] E[dward] Austen[-]Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen: […] to which is Added Lady Susan and Fragments of Two Other Unfinished Tales by Miss Austen, 2nd edition, London: Richard Bentley and Son, […], published 1871, →OCLC:
- My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to prolong my stay […] .
Usage notes Edit
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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urgent m or f (masculine and feminine plural urgents)
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Further reading Edit
- “urgent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “urgent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “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.
French Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Late Latin urgentem, present participle of urgeō.
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urgent (feminine urgente, masculine plural urgents, feminine plural urgentes)
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- “urgent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin Edit
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈur.ɡent/, [ˈʊrɡɛn̪t̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈur.d͡ʒent/, [ˈurd͡ʒen̪t̪]
Verb Edit
urgent
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urgent
Romanian Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from French urgent, from Latin urgens.
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urgent m or n (feminine singular urgentă, masculine plural urgenți, feminine and neuter plural urgente)
Declension Edit
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | urgent | urgentă | urgenți | urgente | ||
definite | urgentul | urgenta | urgenții | urgentele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | urgent | urgente | urgenți | urgente | ||
definite | urgentului | urgentei | urgenților | urgentelor |