angustia

See also: angústia and angustiá

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈɡus.tja/
• Rhymes: -ustja
• Hyphenation: an‧gù‧stia

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin angustia. Doublet of angoscia, which was inherited.

Noun

angustia f (plural angustie)

1. lack of space
2. want, poverty
3. anguish, distress

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

angustia

1. inflection of angustiare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “angustia”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Anagrams

• agunasti

Latin

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Latin angustus

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin angustia

From angustus (“narrow, strait, constricted”) + -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aŋˈɡʊs.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aŋˈɡus.ti.a]

Noun

angustia f (genitive angustiae); first declension

1. (in the plural) narrowness, straitness
2. (in the plural, figurative) defile, straight, gorge
3. want, scarcity, poverty, anguish

   Synonyms: dēsīderium, egestās, inopia, pauperiēs, paupertās, necessitās, indigentia, pēnūria, dēfectiō, miseria, ūsus

   Antonyms: dīvitiae, opulentia

4. brevity, simplicity
5. (in the plural) tribulations, trials, difficulties, necessities

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	angustia	angustiae
genitive	angustiae	angustiārum
dative	angustiae	angustiīs
accusative	angustiam	angustiās
ablative	angustiā	angustiīs
vocative	angustia	angustiae

Related terms

• angustus
• angustiōsus
• angustiāre

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: angoscia
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansh: anguoscha
• Gallo-Italic
  • Piedmontese: angóssia
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: angoisse, anguisse, anguise
    • French: angoisse
    • → Middle English: angwissh
      • English: anguish
      • Scots: anguish
      • Yola: 'ngish
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: angoissa (most dialects)

    Gascon: angoisha, engüeish

  • Old Catalan: angoxa
    • Catalan: angoixa
    • → Old Spanish: angoxa
      • Spanish: angoja
• Borrowings:
  • → Galician: angustia
  • → Italian: angustia
  • → Portuguese: angústia
  • → Sicilian: angùstia
  • → Spanish: angustia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aŋˈɡʊs.ti.aː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aŋˈɡus.ti.a]

Verb

angustiā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of angustiō

References

• “angustia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “angustia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be in a dilemma; in difficulties: in angustiis, difficultatibus, esse or versari
    
  • to be in a dilemma; in difficulties: angustiis premi, difficultatibus affici
    
  • (ambiguous) to place some one in an embarrassing position: in angustias adducere aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) to be reduced to extreme financial embarrassment: in maximas angustias (pecuniae) adduci
    
• angustia in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “angustia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Portuguese

Verb

angustia

1. inflection of angustiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈɡustja/ [ãŋˈɡus.t̪ja]
• Rhymes: -ustja
• Syllabification: an‧gus‧tia

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Latin angustus

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin angustiabor.

Spanish angustia

Borrowed from Latin angustia. Doublet of angoja.

Noun

angustia f (plural angustias)

1. anguish, agony

   Synonyms: agonía, congoja

2. anxiety, distress

   Synonyms: ansiedad, zozobra

Derived terms

• angustioso

Related terms

• angustiado
• angustiar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

angustia

1. inflection of angustiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “angustia”, 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