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English
Etymology
From Latin strigilis.
Noun
strigilis
- An organ for cleaning the antennae on the first tarsal joint of a bee's foreleg.
Latin
Etymology
From the root of stringō + -ilis.
Pronunciation
Noun
strigilis f (genitive strigilis); third declension
- strigil
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).
Descendants
References
- “strigilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “strigilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- strigilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.