strigil

strigil

English

Roman strigils, 1st century CE

Etymology

From Latin strigilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɪd͡ʒɪl/

Noun

strigil (plural strigils)

1. (historical) A grooming tool used to scrape away dead skin, oil, dirt, etc.
   • 2010, Mary Beard, chapter 3, in Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town:

     In another corner, more bone hinges and bronze fittings indicated another cupboard, this time containing a range of rather more prized possessions: the statuette of Venus, a glass swan, a terracotta Cupid, plus some rock-crystal jewellery, a broken horse bit, a couple of strigils (used for ‘scraping down’ after exercise) and various bits and pieces of bone and bronze, including two lamp-stands.

Translations

grooming tool

Catalan: estrígil m Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kaavin (fi) French: strigile (fr) m, stragile m (obsolete) German: Strigilis f, Strigil n Greek: στλεγγίδα (el) f (stlengída) Ancient: στλεγγίς (stlengís)

Italian: strigile (it) m or f Latin: strigilis f Portuguese: estrígil m Russian: стри́гиль m (strígilʹ) Spanish: estrígil m, estrigilo m Ukrainian: стри́гіль m (strýhilʹ)

Further reading

• strigil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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Alternative forms

• estrígil

Noun

strigil m (plural strigiles)

1. strigil