anguria

Galician

Etymology

Ultimately from Ecclesiastical Latin agonia, from Ancient Greek ἀγωνία (agōnía); compare Catalan angúnia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aŋˈɡuɾja̝/

Noun

anguria m (plural angurias)

1. (literary) anguish

   Synonym: angustia

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “anguria”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “anguria”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Italian

anguria

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion) (plural ἀγγούρια (angoúria)). Probably originally meaning “cucumber”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈɡu.rja/
• Rhymes: -urja
• Hyphenation: an‧gù‧ria

Noun

anguria f (plural angurie) (originally northern Italian)

1. watermelon

   Synonym: cocomero

Usage notes

• The term anguria, traditionally considered regional, can be increasingly found beyond its traditional area, especially in the written language: cocomero is extremery rare in its literal meaning in northern Italy, and, elsewhere, it is popularly perceieved by speakers as being a less formal synonym of anguria.

Further reading

• anguria in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• anguria in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• anguria in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• anguria in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• angùria in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Anagrams

• guarani, uragani

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Italian anguriabor.

Latin angūria

Borrowed from Italian anguria.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aŋˈɡuː.ri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aŋˈɡuː.ri.a]

Noun

angūria f (genitive angūriae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) watermelon (fruit and plant)

   Synonyms: (fruit) citrullum, (plant) citrullus, (fruit and plant) adulāha, (fruit and plant) sandia

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	angūria	angūriae
genitive	angūriae	angūriārum
dative	angūriae	angūriīs
accusative	angūriam	angūriās
ablative	angūriā	angūriīs
vocative	angūria	angūriae