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urgent

Senso (Inglese)

  1. Requiring immediate attention.
  2. Of people: insistent, solicitous.

Frequenza

B2
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”). Equivalent to urge + -ent. 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.

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