urgeo

• urgueō

From Proto-Italic *worɣēō, from Proto-Indo-European *w(o)rǵʰ-eye-, from *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”) (compare German würgen (“to strangle”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string, tighten, constrict”), Russian отверга́ть (otvergátʹ, “to reject”), Polish otwierać (“to open”), English worry, wring. However, according to Rix et al. (DIV), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“track, hunt, follow”) and cognate with wreck, wreak.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈʊr.ɡe.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈur.d͡ʒe.o]

urgeō (present infinitive urgēre, perfect active ursī); second conjugation, no supine stem

1. to press, push, force, drive, urge (forward); to stimulate

   Synonyms: stimulō, īnstīgō, īnstinguō, exciō, irrītō, sollicitō, concieō, excitō, concitō, impellō, īnflammō, cieō, incendō, moveō, mōlior, adhortor, ērigō

   Antonyms: domō, lēniō, sōpiō, sēdō, dēlēniō, restinguō, plācō, coerceō, mītigō, commītigō, ēlevō, levō, allevō, alleviō

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.858:

     Mārsque citōs iūnctīs curribus urget equōs

     and Mars, with chariots harnessed, drives swift horses
     (Translations of Ovid's Fasti, by H.T. Riley, James G. Frazer, and Anne and Peter Wiseman, all give Mars one harnessed or yoked chariot in the singular; however, ‘‘iunctis curribus’’ is plural. The plural seems appropriate if the poet’s meaning is understood to be that of Mars menacing with an army of charioteers. Ovid’s verse is an imaginative segue as he closes his book on February and introduces the month of March, named in honor of the war god.)

2. to weigh down, burden, oppress

   Synonyms: opprimō, sepeliō, supprimō, premō

3. to crowd, hem in, confine

   Synonyms: inclūdō, claudō, coerceō, arceō, minuō

• “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)
    
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “urge”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.