(Go: >> BACK << -|- >> HOME <<)



angusti-, angust- +

(Latin: narrow, tight, slender, thin)


ad augusta per angust
To honors through difficulties.

Augusta refers to holy places, angusta to narrow spaces; therefore, sometimes we can not achieve great results without suffering by squeezing through narrow spaces.

anguish
1. Excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain.
2. To inflict with distress, suffering, or pain.
3. To suffer, feel, or exhibit anguish; such as, to anguish over the loss of a loved one.
4. Etymology: from Middle English anguisse; Old French, from Lati angustia, "tight place"; equivalent to angust(us), "narrow" + -ia.
angust
Strait, narrow, compressed.
angustate
1. Narrowed, a reference to leaves which are narrowed at the base.
2. To make narrow, to contract.
angustated
Narrowed, contracted.
angustation
The act of making narrow; a straightening, being made narrow, or contracting.
Angusticlave
A narrow stripe of purple worn by the equites on each side of the tunic as a sign of rank (from Latin angustus, "narrow" + clavus, "a nail, a stripe"; Roman antiquity).
angusticlavus (s), augusticlavia (pl)
In ancient Rome, it was a Roman tunica, or "tunic", embroidered with little purple studs. The angusticlavus was worn by the knight.
angustifoliate
With narrow leaves.
angustirostral, angustirostrate
With a narrow beak or snout.
angustiseptate
Having a silicula (broad, flat capsule) laterally compressed with a narrow septum (dividing wall or enclosure).
angustness
Narrowness, tightness, contraction.
per angusta ad augusta
Through difficulties to honor because sometimes we can not achieve great results without suffering by squeezing through narrow spaces.

If there are any numbers below, use them to see other pages in this unit.


Back to Index | Search Box | Main Index

The Main-Word Info page

The + sign at the end of a unit title means all of the words in that unit have definitions.

Directory of special content and topics

Do you want to help to make this dictionary bigger and better?

Subscribe to this FREE Focusing on Words Newsletter

E-mail Contact words@wordinfo.info




Google
 
Web Search Word Info Search