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7-letter words (2 found)

ANGARIA,NIAGARA,

6-letter words (1 found)

NAGARI,

5-letter words (11 found)

AGAIN,AGRIA,AGRIN,AINGA,ARGAN,GARNI,GRAIN,GRANA,NAIRA,RANGA,RANGI,

4-letter words (24 found)

AGAR,AGIN,AIGA,AIRN,ANGA,ARIA,ARNA,GAIN,GAIR,GARI,GIRN,GNAR,GRAN,GRIN,NAGA,NGAI,RAGA,RAGI,RAIA,RAIN,RANA,RANG,RANI,RING,

3-letter words (17 found)

AGA,AIA,AIN,AIR,ANA,ANI,GAN,GAR,GIN,ING,NAG,RAG,RAI,RAN,RIA,RIG,RIN,

2-letter words (8 found)

AA,AG,AI,AN,AR,GI,IN,NA,

You can make 63 words from angaria according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of angaria

angaria

Noun

angaria (usually uncountable, plural angarias)

  1. Alternative form of angary

Anagrams

  • Niagara

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin angaria

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [əŋ.ɡəˈɾi.ə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [aŋ.ɡaˈɾi.a]

Noun

angaria f (plural angaries)

  1. (law) angary

Further reading

  • “angaria” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

  • Homophones: angarias, angariât

Verb

angaria

  1. third-person singular past historic of angarier

Italian

Verb

angaria

  1. inflection of angariare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

  • ragnaia

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀγγαρεία (angareía, “the office of a courier or messenger”), from ἄγγαρος (ángaros, “courier”), from Old Persian *𐎠𐎥𐎼𐎠 (*a-g-r-a /⁠*angarā⁠/, “missive, letter”), from Aramaic *𐡀𐡍‬𐡂𐡓‬𐡀 (*ʾn‬gr‬ʾ /⁠*ʾengarā⁠/), form of *𐡀𐡍‬𐡂𐡓‬𐡕𐡀 (*ʾn‬gr‬tʾ /⁠*ʾengartā⁠/), variant of 𐡀𐡂𐡓‬𐡕𐡀 (ʾgr‬tʾ /⁠ʾiggartā⁠/), 𐡀𐡍‬𐡂𐡓𐡕‬𐡀 (ʾn‬grt‬ʾ /⁠ʾengirtā⁠/, “missive, letter; contract”), from Akkadian 𒂊𒄈𒌅 (egirtu, “inscribed tablet; oracle of fate, ambiguous wording; contract, bound deal”), from 𒄃 (egēru, “to be difficult, to be twisted or locked together; to have a twisted tongue, to be unable to speak against an order”). See also Classical Syriac ܐܓܪܬܐ (ʾeggarṯā, “letter, document”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /anˈɡa.ri.a/, [äŋˈɡäriä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /anˈɡa.ri.a/, [äŋˈɡäːriä]

Noun

angaria f (genitive angariae); first declension

  1. A compulsory service to a lord; corvee, villanage

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • angariālis
  • angariō

Descendants

Verb

angariā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of angariō

References

  • “angaria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • angaria 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)
  • angaria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “angaria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “angaria”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Noun

angaria f (uncountable)

  1. angary (right to seize property during war)

Etymology 2

Verb

angaria

  1. inflection of angariar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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