Anxious
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early 17th century: from Latin anxius (from angere ‘to choke’) + -ous.
wiktionary
From Latin anxius, from angō(“to cause pain, choke”); akin to Ancient Greek ἄγχω(ánkhō, “to choke”). See anger; angst.
etymonline
anxious (adj.)
1620s, "greatly troubled by uncertainties," from Latin anxius "solicitous, uneasy, troubled in mind" (also "causing anxiety, troublesome"), from angere, anguere "to choke, squeeze," figuratively "to torment, cause distress" (from PIE root *angh- "tight, painfully constricted, painful"). The same image is in Serbo-Croatian tjeskoba "anxiety," literally "tightness, narrowness." Meaning "earnestly desirous" (as in anxious to please) is from 1742. Related: Anxiously; anxiousness.
