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Latin
Etymology
From strictum + -tūra.
Pronunciation
Noun
strictūra f (genitive strictūrae); first declension
- A contraction, compression, stricture.
- Pressure, suffering, torment.
- A hardened mass of wrought iron, bar of iron, ore (under a forge).
- 29-19 B.C.E., Virgil, Aeneid, 8.420
- striduntque cauernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat
- Chalybian ores hiss in the caverns, and from the furnace mouths puff the hot-panting fires
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “strictura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “strictura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- strictura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- strictura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.