perstringo

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Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

perstringō (present infinitive perstringere, perfect active perstrīnxī, supine perstrictum); third conjugation

  1. to draw together or up
  2. to graze
  3. to seize
  4. to blame, censure, reprimand, reprove
    Synonyms: obiūrgō, castīgō, arguō, corripiō, accūsō, īnsector, incūsō, damnō, obloquor, exprobrō, increpō, acclāmō, inclāmō, animadvertō, reprehendō, compellō

Conjugation

References

  • perstringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • perstringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • perstringo 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 cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): strictim, leviter tangere, attingere, perstringere aliquid