angor Latin · revision 9281

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=Cicero|origins=ine-pro *h₂emǵʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈaŋ.ɡɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈaŋ.ɡor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''angor''' ''m'' (genitive angōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[angō]] “to squeeze, strangle” with the suffix [[-or]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs an old s-stem noun, Proto-Italic ⟨*angos-⟩, [[ine-pro|*h₂emǵʰ-os|t=narrowness, anxiety]], which must have been the base of [[angustus]] even though ⟨angor⟩ itself is attested relatively late.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|अंहस्|tr=áṃhas|t=distress]] and [[goh|angust|t=fear]].^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan's first source is Cicero, whom Köbler dates 81–43 BC.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant suffocation, choking, as in Livy, and Pliny the Elder uses it of quinsy in animals.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Cicero it meant mental distress, anguish, anxiety.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Aldhelm and Bede used it for pain and grief, and British Medieval Latin also for spite.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of anguish.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of choking.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Suffocation, choking; quinsy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|anguish|alt=Anguish]], [[m|en|anxiety]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[angustus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[angō]]

+ * [[anxius]]

+ * [[en|anguish]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}