angustus

Latin

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂enǵʰ- (“narrow, tight”) via a form like *h₂enǵʰ-os-tos, from a neuter s-stem *h₂enǵʰ-os (“narrowness”),^[1]^[2] which would correspond to unattested Latin *angus, *angeris (possibly also the base of the name of the goddess Angerōna)^[3] and the adjective-forming suffix *-tós (corresponding to Latin -tus). The same root is found in Latin angō and angor, and in German eng, Sanskrit अंहु (áṃhu), Old Church Slavonic ѫзъкъ (ǫzŭkŭ). For the ending, compare onustus, venustus.

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

narrow, strait (especially of local relations)
close, contracted, constricted, small, not spacious
(figuratively) short, brief
- 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 5:
  Efficit angustos nec mihi bruma dies.
  Winter does not make the days short (for me).

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	angustus	angusta	angustum	angustī	angustae	angusta
genitive	angustī	angustae	angustī	angustōrum	angustārum	angustōrum
dative	angustō	angustae	angustō	angustīs
accusative	angustum	angustam	angustum	angustōs	angustās	angusta
ablative	angustō	angustā	angustō	angustīs
vocative	anguste	angusta	angustum	angustī	angustae	angusta

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

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “angō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 42
^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 62
^ Wagenvoort, H. (1980) “Diva Angerona”, in Pietas: Selected Studies in Roman Religion, Leiden: E.J. Brill, page 23

“angustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “angustus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 575