angustus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰus, from *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow, tight”). Cognate with German eng, Sanskrit अंहु (áṃhu), Old Church Slavonic ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /anˈɡus.tus/, [äŋˈɡʊs̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /anˈɡus.tus/, [äŋˈɡust̪us]

Adjective

angustus (feminine angusta, neuter angustum, comparative angustior, superlative angustissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. narrow, strait (especially of local relations)
2. close, contracted, constricted, small, not spacious
3. (figuratively) short, brief
   • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Tristia 5:

     Efficit angustos nec mihi bruma dies.

     Winter does not make the days short (for me).

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	angustus	angusta	angustum		angustī	angustae	angusta
Genitive	angustī	angustae	angustī		angustōrum	angustārum	angustōrum
Dative	angustō		angustō		angustīs
Accusative	angustum	angustam	angustum		angustōs	angustās	angusta
Ablative	angustō	angustā	angustō		angustīs
Vocative	anguste	angusta	angustum		angustī	angustae	angusta

Synonyms

• artus, brevis, contractus

Antonyms

• lātus

Derived terms

• angiportus
• angustē
• angusti-
• angustia
• angusticlāvius
• angustō
• angustum
• perangustus

 

Related terms

• angor

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: ngustu
  • Romanian: îngust
  • → Albanian: ngushtë
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Portuguese: angosto
    • Galician: angosto
  • Spanish: angosto
• Òc:
  • Gascon: engous
  • Languedocien: angost
• Borrowings:
  • → English: angust
  • → French: anguste
  • → Italian: angusto
  • → Portuguese: angusto

References

• “angustus”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• “angustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• angustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) credit is low throughout Italy: fides tota Italia est angusta
    
• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002), “angustus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 240, page 575