angustus

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

• (Classical) 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

• 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, 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 (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 575