urgeo
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *worgēō, from Proto-Indo-European *w(o)rǵʰ-eye-, from *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”) (compare German würgen (“to strangle”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string, tighten, constrict”), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, “to open”, literally “to untie”), Polish otwierać (“to open”)), English worry, wring, wreak, wreck.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈur.ɡe.oː/, [ˈʊrɡeoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈur.d͡ʒe.o/, [ˈurd͡ʒeo]
Verb
urgeō (present infinitive urgēre, perfect active ursī); second conjugation, no supine stem
Conjugation
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Descendants
References
- “urgeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- urgeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be hard pressed by misfortune: malis urgeri
- to persist in an argument, press a point: argumentum premere (not urgere)
- to be pressed on all sides: undique premi, urgeri (B. G. 2. 26)
- to be hard pressed by misfortune: malis urgeri
- “urge”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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