Where does “anxiety” come from?

Anxiety derives from Latin anxietas, from anxius meaning "narrow or tight," formed with the suffix -tus, from Ancient Greek ξέω, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -tós.

anxiety (English): An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness,...

Definitions

  1. An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness,...

Ancestry of “anxiety”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinanxietāsanxiety
2Latin-tāsty, -dom, -hood, -ness, -ship
3Proto-Indo-European-teh₂tsUsed to form nouns representing state of being
4Proto-Indo-European-teh₂Used to form nouns representing state of being
5Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems

Words derived from “anxiety”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tós →Every word from Latin -tās →Every word from Proto-Indo-European -teh₂ →
anxiety — Etymology, Origin & Word History | Etymology Explorer