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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “twisted band”), from στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”).
Noun
struppus m (genitive struppī); second declension
- strap, band, thong
- garter
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “struppus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- struppus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “struppus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Strippe” in Duden online
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN