# angustia
## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /anˈɡu.stja/
* Rhymes: -ustja
* Hyphenation: an‧gù‧stia

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

angustia f (plural angustie)
* lack of space
* want, poverty
* anguish, distress

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

angustia
* inflection of angustiare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* angustia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* agunasti

## Latin
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Noun

angustia f (genitive angustiae); first declension
* (in the plural) narrowness, straitness
* (in the plural, figurative) defile, straight, gorge
* want, scarcity, poverty, anguish
    Synonyms: dēsīderium, egestās, inopia, pauperiēs, paupertās, necessitās, indigentia, pēnūria, dēfectiō, miseria, ūsus
    Antonyms: dīvitiae, opulentia
* brevity, simplicity
* (in the plural) tribulations, trials, difficulties, necessities

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

##### Related terms

* angustus
* angustiōsus
* angustiāre

##### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: angoscia
* Padanian
** Piedmontese: angóssia
** Romansch: anguoscha
* Northern Gallo-Romance:
** Old French: angoisse, anguisse, anguise
*** French: angoisse
*** → Middle English: angwissh (see there for further descendants)
* 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: /anˈɡus.ti.aː/, [äŋˈɡʊs̠t̪iäː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /anˈɡus.ti.a/, [äŋˈɡust̪iä]

#### Verb

angustiā
* 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, 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, 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
* inflection of angustiar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /anˈɡustja/ [ãŋˈɡus.t̪ja]
* Rhymes: -ustja
* Syllabification: an‧gus‧tia

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin angustia. Doublet of angoja.

#### Noun

angustia f (plural angustias)
* anguish, agony
    Synonyms: agonía, congoja
* anxiety, distress
    Synonyms: ansiedad, zozobra

##### Derived terms

* angustioso

##### Related terms

* angustiado
* angustiar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

angustia
* inflection of angustiar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “angustia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10