angor

See also: Angor and ångor

English

Etymology

Latin angor. See anger.

Noun

angor

  1. (medicine, dated) Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for angor in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams


French

Noun

angor m (uncountable)

  1. angina pectoris

Synonyms


Latin

Noun

angor m (genitive angōris); third declension

  1. strangulation
  2. anguish, torment, trouble, vexation

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative angor angōrēs
Genitive angōris angōrum
Dative angōrī angōribus
Accusative angōrem angōrēs
Ablative angōre angōribus
Vocative angor angōrēs

Descendants

Verb

angor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of angō

References

  • angor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • angor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • angor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be tormented with anxiety: angoribus premi
    • to be worn out, almost dead with anxiety: angoribus confici (Phil. 2. 15. 37)
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