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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰus, from *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow, tight”). Cognate with German eng, Sanskrit अंहु (áṃhu), Old Church Slavonic ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ).
Pronunciation
Adjective
angustus (feminine angusta, neuter angustum, comparative angustior, superlative angustissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- narrow, strait (especially of local relations)
- close, contracted, constricted, small, not spacious
- (figuratively) short, brief
8 CE – 12 CE,
Ovid,
Sorrows 5:
- Efficit angustos nec mihi bruma dies.
- Winter does not make the days short (for me).
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
- “angustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “angustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- angustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) credit is low throughout Italy: fides tota Italia est angusta
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “angustus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 575