strictus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of stringō (“tighten, compress”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈstrik.tus/, [ˈs̠t̪rɪkt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈstrik.tus/, [ˈst̪rikt̪us]
Participle
strictus (feminine stricta, neuter strictum, adverb strictim); first/second-declension participle
- tightened, compressed, having been tightened
- drawn (a sword)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | strictus | stricta | strictum | strictī | strictae | stricta | |
| Genitive | strictī | strictae | strictī | strictōrum | strictārum | strictōrum | |
| Dative | strictō | strictō | strictīs | ||||
| Accusative | strictum | strictam | strictum | strictōs | strictās | stricta | |
| Ablative | strictō | strictā | strictō | strictīs | |||
| Vocative | stricte | stricta | strictum | strictī | strictae | stricta | |
Related terms
- sēnsū strictō
- strictē
- strictiō
- strictīvus
- strictor
- strictūra
- stringō
Descendants
- → Albanian: shtrenjtë
- Aromanian: strimtu, strãmtu
- Asturian: estrechu
- → Breton: strizh
- Catalan: estret, → estricte
- → English: strict
- → French: strict
- Old French: estroit, estreit, estroict
- → English: strait
- French: étroit, étreint
- Norman: êtrait (Jersey)
- Walloon: stroet
- Friulian: stret, strent
- Galician: estreito, → estrito
- Istriot: strento
- Italian: stretto
- Ladin: strent
- Megleno-Romanian: strimt
- Occitan: estrech, estreit
- Piedmontese: strèit
- Portuguese: estreito, → estrito
- Romanian: strâmt
- Romansch: stretg, stret
- Sardinian: istrintu, strintu
- Sicilian: strittu
- Spanish: estrecho, → estricto
- Venetian: streto, stret, strento, strent
References
- “strictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “strictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- strictus 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)
- strictus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to throw oneself on the enemy with drawn sword: strictis gladiis in hostem ferri
- to throw oneself on the enemy with drawn sword: strictis gladiis in hostem ferri