angustus

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.

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

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
   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 5:

     Efficit angustos nec mihi bruma dies.

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

First/second-declension adjective.

• artus, brevis, contractus

• lātus

• angiportus
• angor

• “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