angustia

See also: angústia and angustiá

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin angustia. Compare the doublet angoscia.

Noun

angustia f (plural angustie)

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

Verb

angustia

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

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Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

Via anguere, variant of angere.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /anˈɡus.ti.a/, [äŋˈɡʊs̠t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /anˈɡus.ti.a/, [äŋˈɡust̪iä]

Noun

angustia f (genitive angustiae); first declension

1. (in the plural) narrowness, straitness
2. (in the plural) defile, straight
3. want, anguish
4. brevity, simplicity
5. (in the plural) tribulations, trials, difficulties, necessities

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	angustia	angustiae
Genitive	angustiae	angustiārum
Dative	angustiae	angustiīs
Accusative	angustiam	angustiās
Ablative	angustiā	angustiīs
Vocative	angustia	angustiae

Related terms

• angustus
• angustiōsus

Descendants

• Catalan: angoixa
• English: anguish
• French: angoisse
• Galician: angustia
• Italian: angoscia, angustia
• Portuguese: angústia
• Spanish: angoja, angustia

Verb

(deprecated template usage) 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 (2016 July 16 (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

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Portuguese

Verb

angustia

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈɡustja/ [ãŋˈɡus.t̪ja]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin angustia. Compare angoja, from the same source.

Noun

angustia f (plural angustias)

1. anguish, distress
2. anxiety

Derived terms

• angustioso

Related terms

• angustiado
• angustiar

Etymology 2

Verb

angustia

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of angustiar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of angustiar.

Further reading

• “angustia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014