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angustio
angustio
Latin
Etymology
From angustus (“narrow”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aŋˈɡu.sti.oː/
Verb
angustiō (present infinitive angustiāre, perfect active angustiāvī, supine angustiātum); first conjugation
- I make narrow, straiten, compress, narrow.
- (figuratively, Ecclesiastical Latin) I hamper, distress, harrow, torment, afflict.
Inflection
Synonyms
- (narrow): angustō
Related terms
References
- angustio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “angustio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(ambiguous) to place some one in an embarrassing position: in angustias adducere aliquem
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(ambiguous) to be reduced to extreme financial embarrassment: in maximas angustias (pecuniae) adduci
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(ambiguous) to place some one in an embarrassing position: in angustias adducere aliquem