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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diˈstrin.ɡo/
- Rhymes: -inɡo
- Hyphenation: di‧strìn‧go
Verb
distringo
- first-person singular present indicative of distringere
Latin
Etymology
From dis- + stringō.
Pronunciation
Verb
distringō (present infinitive distringere, perfect active distrīnxī, supine districtum); third conjugation
- to stretch out or apart
- to detain
- to distract
Conjugation
References
- “distringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “distringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- distringo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.