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Etymology
From stranga + -ulo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stranˈɡulo/
- Rhymes: -ulo
- Hyphenation: stran‧gu‧lo
Noun
strangulo (accusative singular strangulon, plural stranguloj, accusative plural strangulojn)
- A strange, odd, or eccentric person; a crackpot, a crank.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “a halter”); compare στραγγός (strangós, “tied together, entangled, twisted”).
Pronunciation
Verb
strangulō (present infinitive strangulāre, perfect active strangulāvī, supine strangulātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to strangle, throttle
- (transitive) to choke, suffocate, smother
- (transitive) to torment, torture
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References
- “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.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “strangle”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.