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Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish angoxa, itself borrowed from Old Catalan angoxa, from Latin angustiae (“tribulations, difficulties”). (/ʃ/ > /x/ is not a native outcome of /-stj-/ in Spanish.) Doublet of angustia. Compare modern Catalan angoixa.
Noun
angoja f (plural angojas)
- (archaic) grief; anguish
Further reading
- “angoja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “angosto”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 270