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angusta

angusta is a Latin form of angustus, meaning “narrow, confined; difficult; (angustiae) narrow pass, difficulties”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or vocative plural neuter adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 82 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.65: … , quam constituerant, castra ponunt. Suberant enim montes, atque a milibus passuum V itinera difficilia atque angusta excipiebant. Hos montes intrasse cupiebant, ut equitatum effugerent Caesaris praesidiisque in angustiis collo …

Martial, Epigrammata 8.3.21: Angusta cantare licet videaris avena,

All forms of angustus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.