strangulo

From stranga +‎ -ulo.

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Hyphenation: stran‧gu‧lo

strangulo (accusative singular strangulon, plural stranguloj, accusative plural strangulojn)

1. A strange, odd, or eccentric person; a crackpot, a crank.

From Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “a halter”); compare στραγγός (strangós, “tied together, entangled, twisted”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstran.ɡu.loː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstran.ɡu.lo/,

strangulō (present infinitive strangulāre, perfect active strangulāvī, supine strangulātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to strangle, throttle
2. (transitive) to choke, suffocate, smother
3. (transitive) to torment, torture

• “strangulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “strangulo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• strangulo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “strangle”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.