stringo

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See also: stringò

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstrin.ɡo/
  • Rhymes: -inɡo
  • Hyphenation: strìn‧go

Verb

stringo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of stringere
  2. first-person singular present indicative of stringare

Latin

Etymology

    From Proto-Italic *stringō, from a merger of Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (to draw, twist, tie) (for the "tie, tighten" meanings) and Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (to stroke, to shear, stiff) (for the "strip off, prune" meanings).[1] Cognate with strix, striga, strigōsus, stria, strigilis, strigmentum, English streak.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    stringō (present infinitive stringere, perfect active strīnxī, supine strictum); third conjugation

    1. to draw tight together, to tie together
    2. to pull or strip off, cut off, pluck off, clip off, prune
      Synonyms: prīvō, dēturbō, tondeō, nūdō, dēstringō, fraudō, adimō
    3. to unsheath
    4. to touch lightly, graze, wound slightly

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    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “stringō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 591-2

    Further reading

    • stringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • stringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • stringo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to draw one's sword: gladium stringere, destringere