## Meanings
1. A sudden, dangerous situation that needs immediate action
2. The part of a hospital that treats people who need urgent care
3. An official state in which special government powers apply because of a crisis

## Examples
- They never knew what to do in an emergency.
- We rushed him to the emergency in the middle of the night.
- The governor declared a state of emergency after the flood.

## Derived Forms
- nonemergency
- peemergency
- postemergency

## Related Forms
- emerge
- emergence
- police

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: emergentia
- Root: emergens
- Affix: -cy - state

## Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin emergentia, from Latin emergens, present participle of emergo (“to emerge, arise, come forth”), equivalent to emergent + -cy or emerge + -ency. Doublet of emergence.

## AI Etymology
Emergency is borrowed from Medieval Latin emergentia, from Latin emergens, present participle of emergo (“to emerge, arise, come forth”), equivalent to emergent + -cy or emerge + -ency. Doublet of emergence. In current use, the main senses are “A sudden, dangerous situation that needs immediate action” and “The part of a hospital that treats people who need urgent care”.

## Topics
- Safety & Risk

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