strictura
Latin
Etymology
Late Latin. From strictus, perfect passive participle of stringō (“tighten, compress”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /strikˈtuː.ra/, [s̠t̪rɪkˈt̪uːrä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /strikˈtu.ra/, [st̪rikˈt̪uːrä]
Noun
strictūra f (genitive strictūrae); first declension
- A contraction, compression, stricture.
- Pressure, suffering, torment.
- A hardened mass of wrought iron, bar of iron, ore (under a forge).
- 29-19 B.C.E., Virgil, Aeneid, 8.420
- striduntque cauernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat
- Chalybian ores hiss in the caverns, and from the furnace mouths puff the hot-panting fires
- striduntque cauernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat
- 29-19 B.C.E., Virgil, Aeneid, 8.420
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | strictūra | strictūrae |
Genitive | strictūrae | strictūrārum |
Dative | strictūrae | strictūrīs |
Accusative | strictūram | strictūrās |
Ablative | strictūrā | strictūrīs |
Vocative | strictūra | strictūrae |
Related terms
- strictē
- strictiō
- strictīvus
- strictor
- strictus
- stringō
Descendants
- English: stricture
- French: stricture
- Italian: strettura
- Portuguese: estreitura, estritura
- Romanian: strâmtură, strictură
- Spanish: estrechura
References
- “strictura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “strictura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- strictura 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)
- strictura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette