Latin

Alternative forms

• urgueō

Verb

urgeō ‎(present infinitive urgēre, perfect active ursī); second conjugation, defective

1. I press, push, force, drive, urge.
2. I weigh down, burden, oppress.
3. I crowd, hem in, confine.

Inflection

• The perfect forms are shared with urgueō.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• urgeo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “urgeo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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)
    
• urge in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911