Where does “emergency” come from?
Emergency derives from Medieval Latin emergentia, from Latin emergens, the present participle of emergere, meaning to rise out or come forth, from ex- and a root meaning to rise.
emergency (English): A situation which poses an immediate risk and...
Definitions
- A situation which poses an immediate risk and...
Ancestry of “emergency”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | emergens | emerging |
| 2 | Latin | emergo | I emerge; I surface; I arise or come forth |
| 3 | Latin | mergō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | *mésgeti | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | mesg- | to dip, sink |
Words derived from “emergency”