urgens

Latin

Etymology

Present participle of urgeō.

Participle

urgēns (genitive urgentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. urging

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	urgēns			urgentēs	urgentia
genitive	urgentis			urgentium
dative	urgentī			urgentibus
accusative	urgentem	urgēns		urgentēs urgentīs	urgentia
ablative	urgente urgentī1			urgentibus
vocative	urgēns			urgentēs	urgentia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Descendants

• Catalan: urgent
• English: urgent
• Galician: urxente
• Italian: urgente
• Spanish: urgente
• Portuguese: urgente

References

• “urgens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• urgens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.