anxius

anxius

1. conditional of anxiar

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaːŋk.si.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaŋk.si.us]

From angō.

ānxius (feminine ānxia, neuter ānxium, comparative magis ānxius, superlative maximē ānxius); first/second-declension adjective

1. afeared, anxious, troubled, uneasy

First/second-declension adjective.

• ānxietās
• ānxifer
• ānxiōsus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄξοος (áxoos, “unwrought, unshorn”) from ξέω (xéō, “to shear”), confused with ἄξιος (áxios, “valuable, worthy”) and through a nasal excrescence with the Latin ānxius.

ānxius (feminine ānxia, neuter ānxium); first/second-declension adjective (hapax legomenon)

1. unshorn
   • c. 300, Epitaphium Alliae Potestatis, versus 22–23 – Philologus 73, p. 275

     anxia non mansit, sed corpore pulchra benigno
     levia membra tulit: pilus illi quaesitus ubique.

     She did not stay unshorn, but beautiful from a benign body
     she bore her light liths, hair to be sought on any spot.

First/second-declension adjective.

• “anxius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “anxius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• anxius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Birt, Theodor (1918) Aus dem Leben der Antike, Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, pages 236–237