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Borrowed from Latin angulāris.

First coined by Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus in 1753 in the specific epithet of Chironia angularis (now Sabatia angularis), the rosepink.

angularis m or f (neuter angulare)

1. angular

From angulus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aŋ.ɡʊˈɫaː.rɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aŋ.ɡuˈlaː.ris]

angulāris (neuter angulāre); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. angular; square
2. placed at corners

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

angulāris

1. second-person singular present passive indicative of angulō

• “angularis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "angularis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “angularis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.