Where does “angoasă” come from?
angoasă (Romanian) comes from French angoisser, from Old French angoissier, from Old French angoisse, from Latin angustia, from Latin -ia, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
angoasă (Romanian): anguish
Definitions
- anguish
Ancestry of “angoasă”, step by step
angoasă traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French angoisser
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | angoisser | to stress, to worry; to cause panic or fear |
| 2 | Old French | angoissier | to scare; to cause fear |
| 3 | Old French | angoisse | fear, worry, terror |
| 4 | Latin | angustia | narrowness, straitness; defile, straight, gorge;... |
| 5 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 6 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |
via French angoissé
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | angoissé | worried; scared; tense; nervous; past participle... |