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Latin
Etymology
strīdō (“to whiz”) + -ulus (“-ing”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
strīdulus (feminine strīdula, neuter strīdulum); first/second-declension adjective
- creaking, rattling, whizzing, buzzing, stridulous
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- stridulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- stridulus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- “stridulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press