ansia

From Late Latin anxia.

• IPA^(key): [ˈansi̯ɐ]

ansia f (plural ansias)

1. craving, eagerness
2. interest, involvement
3. worry
4. anxiety

• “ansia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “ansia” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ansia” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.sja/
• Rhymes: -ansja
• Hyphenation: àn‧sia

Learned borrowing from Late Latin anxia, derived from Classical Latin anxius (“anxious”).

ansia f (plural ansie)

1. anxiety, apprehension

   Synonyms: ansietà, apprensione

2. eagerness

   Synonym: bramosia

• ansia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ansia

1. feminine singular of ansio

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ansia

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

• ansai, asina, sanai

From Late Latin anxia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈansja/ [ˈãn.sja]
• Rhymes: -ansja
• Syllabification: an‧sia

ansia f (plural ansias)

1. anxiety, apprehension

   Synonyms: ansiedad, aprehensión

2. craving, eagerness, hankering, yearning, longing

• The feminine noun ansia is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed /a/ sound in that it takes the articles el and un (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el ansia

un ansia

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with stressed /a/ such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la or una.

• “ansia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014