strictura

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Latin

Etymology

From strictus, perfect passive participle of stringō (“tighten, compress”).

Pronunciation

Noun

strictūra f (genitive strictūrae); first declension

  1. A contraction, compression, stricture.
  2. Pressure, suffering, torment.
  3. 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.

singular plural
nominative strictūra strictūrae
genitive strictūrae strictūrārum
dative strictūrae strictūrīs
accusative strictūram strictūrās
ablative strictūrā strictūrīs
vocative strictūra strictūrae

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.
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