congustus

Latin

Pronunciation
  • (Proto-Romance) IPA(key): /konˈɡʊstʊs/
  • (Proto-Western-Romance) IPA(key): /konˈɡostos/

Adjective

congustus (feminine congusta, neuter congustum); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)

  1. Alternative form of coangustus (“narrow”) (documented from the third to the ninth century CE)[1]

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • ⇒ Catalan: congost (“mountain pass”)
    • ⇒ Occitan: Congost (various toponyms)
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • ⇒ Old Galician-Portuguese: congosta (“long narrow street”)
      • Galician: congosta, congostra
      • Portuguese: congosta
    • Old Spanish: congosto (attested in two documents dating to 912 and 1143)
      • ⇒ Spanish: Puente del Congosto (toponym)

References
  1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “angosto”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 270
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