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

Borrowed 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. eagerness

   Synonym: avidez

3. craving, hankering
4. yearning, longing

   Synonym: anhelo

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el ansia, un ansia

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

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