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Latin
Etymology
Maybe from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Ancient Greek στρεβλός (streblós, “twisted, crooked”) and στρόβος (stróbos, “whirling round”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
strebula n pl (genitive strebulōrum); second declension
- (plural only) The flesh about the haunches
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.
References
- “strebula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- strebula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.