angustusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [aŋˈɡʊs.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [aŋˈɡus.tus]

形容詞

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

1. (of space) narrow, close, contracted, constricted, confined, small, not spacious
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.2:

     Prō multitūdine autem hominum et prō glōriā bellī atque fortitūdinis angustōs sē fīnēs habēre arbitrābantur, quī in longitūdinem mīlia passuum CCXL, in lātitūdinem CLXXX patēbant.

     However, on account of the great number of people and their reputation for war and bravery, they thought that they had narrow boundaries, which extended 240 [Roman] miles in length and 180 in width.

2. (as a substantive) narrow, strait
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).

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

同意語

• artus, brevis, contractus

反意語

• lātus

派生語

関連する語

• angiportus
• angor

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “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, volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 575