angina

See also: anginą and angína

English

Etymology

From Latin angina (“quinsy; strangling, choking”), from angō (“to press together, to choke, to hurt (cause pain)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.d͡ʒɪ.nə/, /ænˈd͡ʒaɪ.nə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪnə

Noun

angina (countable and uncountable, plural anginas)

2. (medicine, loosely) Any of various kinds of pain, especially pain that is suffocative, spasmodic, and/or acute and severe (fulminant).
   2. (medicine, usually strictly) Ellipsis of angina pectoris (“chest pain of cardiac origin”).
4. (medicine, dated) An inflammatory infection of the throat, especially quinsy; any sore throat, with or without tooth and gum involvement.

   Hyponyms: Ludwig's angina, Vincent's angina, Plaut-Vincent angina

Usage notes

Although the use of angina as a shorthand for angina pectoris is common and accepted by most dictionaries, it may be considered imprecise or improper by some medical practitioners.

Derived terms

• anginal
• anginalike
• angina Ludovici
• angina pectoris
• angina rheumatica
• angina tonsillaris
• anginiform
• anginoid
• anginous
• antiangina
• antianginal
• atenolol
• herpes angina
• Ludwig's angina
• nonanginal
• pectoral angina
• Plaut-Vincent angina
• postanginal
• Prinzmetal's angina
• Vincent's angina

Translations

angina pectoris — see angina pectoris

infection of the throat

• Bulgarian: ангина (bg) (angina)
• Catalan: angina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 咽峽炎 / 咽峡炎 (zh) (yānxiáyán), 喉頭炎 / 喉头炎 (zh) (hóutóuyán)

• Danish: angina c
• Esperanto: angino
• Finnish: angiina (fi)
• Georgian: ანგინა (ka) (angina)
• Greek: κυνάγχη (el) f (kynánchi)
• Indonesian: angina (id)
• Irish: aingíne f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: angina m

  Nynorsk: angina m

• Portuguese: angina (pt) f
• Russian: анги́на (ru) f (angína)
• Spanish: angina (es) f
• Ukrainian: ангі́на (uk) f (anhína)

chest pain

• Arabic: ذَبْحَة صَدْرِيَّة f (ḏabḥa(t) ṣadriyya)
• Danish: angina c
• Esperanto: brustangoro, brustangino
• Finnish: rintakipu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: angina m

  Nynorsk: angina m

• Swedish: kärlkramp (sv) c
• Ukrainian: стенокарді́я f (stenokardíja)

References

• “angina”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “angina”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Gianna, inanga

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin angina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [əɲˈʒi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aɲˈd͡ʒi.na]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [aɲˈʒi.na]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

angina f (plural angines)

1. (pathology) angina (infection of the throat)

Further reading

• “angina”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “angina”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “angina” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “angina”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin angina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑŋˈɣi.naː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: an‧gi‧na

Noun

angina f (plural angina's or anginae, no diminutive)

1. angina

Descendants

• → Indonesian: angina

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin angina (“choking, suffocation”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒŋɡinɒ]
• Rhymes: -nɒ
• Hyphenation: an‧gi‧na

Noun

angina (usually uncountable, plural anginák)

1. (medicine, cardiology) angina, angina pectoris (intermittent crushing chest pain caused by reversible myocardial ischemia)

   Synonym: angina pectoris

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	angina	anginák
accusative	anginát	anginákat
dative	anginának	angináknak
instrumental	anginával	anginákkal
causal-final	angináért	anginákért
translative	anginává	anginákká
terminative	angináig	anginákig
essive-formal	anginaként	anginákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	anginában	anginákban
superessive	anginán	anginákon
adessive	anginánál	angináknál
illative	anginába	anginákba
sublative	anginára	anginákra
allative	anginához	anginákhoz
elative	anginából	anginákból
delative	angináról	anginákról
ablative	anginától	angináktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	angináé	angináké
non-attributive possessive – plural	angináéi	anginákéi

Possessive forms of angina

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	anginám	angináim
2nd person sing.	anginád	angináid
3rd person sing.	anginája	anginái
1st person plural	anginánk	angináink
2nd person plural	anginátok	angináitok
3rd person plural	anginájuk	angináik

Derived terms

• anginás
• anginázik

Further reading

• angina in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch angina, from Latin angina (“quinsy; strangling, choking”), from angō (“to press together, to choke, to hurt (cause pain)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaŋina]
• Hyphenation: angi‧na

Noun

angina (plural angina-angina)

1. (pathology) angina:
   1. an inflammatory infection of the throat, particularly quinsy
   2. (cardiology) ellipsis of angina pektoris (“angina pectoris”)

Derived terms

• angina mikrovaskular
• angina pektoris
• angina refrakter
• angina vasospastik

Further reading

• “angina”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin angĭna, from Ancient Greek ἀγχόνη (ankhónē, “strangling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Greek stress) /anˈd͡ʒi.na/, (Latin stress) /ˈan.d͡ʒi.na/
• Rhymes: (Greek stress) -ina, (Latin stress) -andʒina
• Hyphenation: (Greek stress) an‧gì‧na, (Latin stress) àn‧gi‧na

Noun

angina f (plural angine)

1. (medical) a choking or a suffocation. Usually understood as ellipsis of angina pectoris (heart-related chest pain).

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀγχόνη (ankhónē, “strangling”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaŋ.ɡɪ.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈan̠ʲ.d͡ʒi.na]

Noun

angina f (genitive anginae); first declension

1. choking, suffocation
2. quinsy, tonsillitis

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	angina	anginae
genitive	anginae	anginārum
dative	anginae	anginīs
accusative	anginam	anginās
ablative	anginā	anginīs
vocative	angina	anginae

Descendants

• → Catalan: angina
• → Dutch: angina
• → English: angina
• → Esperanto: angino
• → French: angine
• → Galician: anxina
• → German: Angina
• → Italian: angina
• Norwegian:
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: angina
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: angina
• → Polish: angina
• → Portuguese: angina
• → Serbo-Croatian: angína, анги́на
• → Spanish: angina
• → Ukrainian: ангі́на (anhína)

References

• “angina” on page 129/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Māori

Noun

angina

1. death

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin angina.

Noun

angina m (definite singular anginaen, indefinite plural anginaer, definite plural anginaene)

1. (pathology) angina

References

• “angina” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “angina” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Anagrams

• aninga

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin angina.

Noun

angina m (definite singular anginaen, indefinite plural anginaer or anginaar, definite plural anginaene or anginaane)

1. (pathology) angina

References

• “angina” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin angina. First attested in 1680–1689.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aŋˈɡi.na/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: an‧gi‧na

Noun

angina f

1. (pathology) tonsillitis

Declension

Declension of angina

	singular	plural
nominative	angina	anginy
genitive	anginy	angin
dative	anginie	anginom
accusative	anginę	anginy
instrumental	anginą	anginami
locative	anginie	anginach
vocative	angino	anginy

Collocations

Collocations

• nieleczona/niewyleczona angina ― untreated tonsillitis
• przebyta angina ― past tonsillitis
• paskudna angina ― nasty tonsillitis
• przewlekła angina ― chronic tonsillitis
• częste anginy ― frequent tonsillitides
• zwykła angina ― common tonsillitis
• ciężka angina ― severe tonsillitis
• ostra angina ― acute tonsillitis
• angina ropna ― purulent tonsillitis
• angina bakteryjna ― bacterial tonsillitis
• angina wirusowa ― viral tonsillitis
• chorować/zachorować na anginę ― to be/get sick with tonsillitis
• leczyć/wyleczyć anginę ― to treat/cure tonsillitis
• złapać anginę ― to catch tonsillitis
• mieć anginę ― to have tonsillitis
• dostać anginy ― to get tonsillitis
• przechodzić/przejść anginę ― to go through tonsillitis
• powodować/spowodować anginę ― to cause tonsillitis
• stwierdzić anginę ― to diagnose tonsillitis
• angina zmogła/dopadła kogoś ― angina got someone

Further reading

• “angina”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “angina”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “angina”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “angina”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “angina”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 37

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin angina.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈʒĩ.nɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃ˈʒi.nɐ/

• Hyphenation: an‧gi‧na

Noun

angina f (plural anginas)

1. (pathology) angina (infection of the throat)

Further reading

• “angina”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “angina”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin angina.

Noun

angína f (Cyrillic spelling анги́на)

1. angina
2. (pathology) tonsillitis

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin angina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈxina/ [ãŋˈxi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: an‧gi‧na

Noun

angina f (plural anginas)

1. (pathology) angina (infection of the throat)

Derived terms

• angina de pecho

Further reading

• “angina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English angina.

Noun

angina class IX (plural angina class X)

1. angina