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“anxiety” in Latin
angōto bind, draw, press together; to choke, throttle, strangle (replaced in Classical Latin by suffoco); to cause physical ānxietāsanxiety; carefulnesssollicitūdōanxiety, worry, concern, uneasiness; watchful concern, solicitude; anxious care or attention, painstakingnesspavorThe act of trembling, quaking, throbbing or panting with fear.; Fear, alarm, terror, fright, panic.; Fear through expecttrepidātiōagitation, confusion, trepidation; the act of trembling or twitchingafflictātĭopainaestusheat; fire; tideānxiusafeared, anxious, troubled, uneasytrepidōto hurry with alarm, bustle about anxiously, to be in a state of confusion, agitation, or trepidation; to tremble; to betrepidusnervous, jumpy, agitated; perilous, alarming; fearful, trepidatious
The English word anxiety itself goes back to Latin angō, through ānxietās.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
anxiety
angor: anxietas (anxitudo rare: angor is a temporary affection: anxietas, an abiding state): sollicitudo (anxiety caused by the apprehension of evil): pavor (dread): trepidatio (impatience of rest, as a bodily effect of anxiety): afflictatio (great anxiety, anguish: not afflictio, which is removed from Cic., Tusc, in critical editions): aestus (disturbed, perplexed state). Full of anxiety, anxius, trepidans or trepidus: sollicitus. To be in, or feel, anxiety, angi; animo sollicito esse; animo tremere; pavere: about anything (animo) angi de re: about anybody, angorem capere, sollicitum esse pro aliquo. To be in great anxiety, angore contici; aestuare; angoribus premi, agitari, urgeri; angi intimis sensibus: to be tormented with anxiety, angore cruciari. To cause anybody anxiety, anxiis curis implere alicujus animum; sollicitudinem alicui struere; trepidationem alicui injicere. To be an anxiety, sollicitudinem esse (Cic.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for anxiety?
- The usual Latin words for “anxiety” are angō, ānxietās, sollicitūdō; also pavor, trepidātiō, afflictātĭo. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.