From Latin urgēre ('to press, shove'), 'urgent' passed through Old French into English, losing its physical force but keeping the sense of irresistible pressure.
Requiring immediate action or attention; pressing and compelling.
From Latin urgentem (nominative urgens), present participle of urgēre ('to press, push, drive, compel'). The Latin verb carried both a physical sense (pressing or squeezing) and a figurative sense (compelling or insisting). Its Proto-Indo-European root is likely *wreg- ('to push, shove'), though some scholars connect it to *werg- ('to do, work'). English borrowed urgent through Old French urgent in the late fifteenth century. The word arrived already