astringo

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /asˈtrin.ɡo/
  • Rhymes: -inɡo
  • Hyphenation: a‧strìn‧go

Verb

astringo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of astringere

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From ad- +‎ stringō.

Pronunciation

Verb

astringō (present infinitive astringere, perfect active astrīnxī, supine astrictum); third conjugation

  1. to draw close, bind or tie together; tighten, contract
  2. to check, repress, restrain
  3. to put under obligation, oblige, necessitate

Conjugation

Descendants

References

  • astringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • astringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • astringo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to make a speech rhythmical: numeris orationem astringere, vincire
    • to commit a crime and so make oneself liable to the consequences of it: scelere se devincire, se obstringere, astringi
    • to bind some one by an oath: iureiurando aliquem astringere