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anxiosus

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Forms

anxiōsus (feminine anxiōsa, neuter anxiōsum); first/second-declension adjective[1][2]

Etymology

It is from Latin anxius (“anxious”) + -ōsus.[2][3][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Its only ancient author is the physician Caelius Aurelianus, who calls something distressing for those about to sleep, and speaks of difficult or troubled sleep.[5][2][3]

Semantic evolution

Though rare in ancient texts, it lived on in the Romance languages: the TLL points to Italian and Spanish ⟨ansioso⟩,[5] and Conte derives Italian ansioso from it.[4]

Timeline

  • 5th century AD – Caelius Aurelianus uses it of troubled sleep.[5][3]

Meanings

Adjective

  1. Full of anxiety, troubled; causing distress.[1][2][4]

References

  1. ^ a b Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  2. ^ a b c d Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
  3. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  4. ^ a b c Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
  5. ^ a b c Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften