angulus

Borrowed from Latin angulus (“an angle”). Doublet of angle.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋ.ɡjəl.əs/

angulus (plural anguli)

1. (anatomy) An angle or corner, such as the angular portion of the stomach between the lesser curvature and the pylorus.

   Synonym: gastric angle

• “angulus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “angulus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “angulus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• unguals

• anglus (late, proscribed)

From Proto-Italic *angulos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂engulos (“joint?”), from *h₂eng- (“bend, curve”).^[1]

Cognates include Sanskrit अङ्गुरि (aṅgúri, “finger, toe”), Ancient Greek ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “crooked, curved”), Old High German enchil (“ankle, joint”), Icelandic ekkja and Old Church Slavonic ѫгълъ (ǫgŭlŭ, “angle”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈan.ɡu.lus/, [ˈäŋɡʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈan.ɡu.lus/, [ˈäŋɡulus]

angulus m (genitive angulī); second declension

1. (mathematics) An angle.
2. A corner.
3. A retired, unfrequented place, a nook, corner, lurking place.
4. A projection of the sea into the land, a bay, gulf.

Second-declension noun.

• “angulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “angulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• angulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “angulus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly