congustus

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Latin

Adjective

congustus (feminine congusta, neuter congustum); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)

Alternative form of coangustus (“narrow”) (documented from the third to the ninth century CE)^[1]

Derived terms

congustia

Descendants

Gallo-Romance:
- ⇒ Catalan: congost (“mountain pass”)
- ⇒ Occitan: Congost (various toponyms)
Ibero-Romance:
- ⇒ Old Galician-Portuguese: congosta (“long narrow street”), congostra
  - Galician: congostra (“sunken lane”), congosta
  - Portuguese: congosta
- Old Spanish: congosto (attested in two documents dating to 912 and 1143)
  - ⇒ Spanish: Puente del Congosto (toponym)

References

^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] 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

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