urgencia
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin urgentia or urgir + -encia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uɾˈxenθja/ [uɾˈxẽn̟.θja] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- IPA(key): /uɾˈxensja/ [uɾˈxẽn.sja] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -enθja (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- Rhymes: -ensja (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: ur‧gen‧cia
Noun
urgencia f (plural urgencias)
- urgency
- Synonym: premura
- emergency
- Synonym: emergencia
Related terms
Further reading
- “urgencia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025