instar.
to urge
Meaning & usage
to urge
to insist [with por ‘on’], to ask insistently for
to question insistently, to interrogate
to be imminent, to lurk
to be urgent or necessary
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *énu Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *staējō Proto-Italic *staēō Latin stō Latin īnstārebor. Portuguese instar Borrowed from Latin īnstāre.
instar (Each of the states of metamorphosis of an invertebrate animal, comprised between two periods of molting.)
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin instar.
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