perstrictus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of perstringō

Participle

perstrictus (feminine perstricta, neuter perstrictum); first/second-declension participle

1. bound tightly together; drawn together, drawn up, contracted
2. grazed, grazed against a thing
3. (transferred sense) made blunt by grazing against, to be made dull, to be dulled
4. to be stunned or deafened
5. to be seized
6. (in participle) to be touched or wounded slightly with words
7. to be blamed, censured, reprimanded, reproved
8. (in speaking) touched on slightly, glanced over, narrated briefly
9. belittled, slighted

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	perstrictus	perstricta	perstrictum		perstrictī	perstrictae	perstricta
genitive	perstrictī	perstrictae	perstrictī		perstrictōrum	perstrictārum	perstrictōrum
dative	perstrictō	perstrictae	perstrictō		perstrictīs
accusative	perstrictum	perstrictam	perstrictum		perstrictōs	perstrictās	perstricta
ablative	perstrictō	perstrictā	perstrictō		perstrictīs
vocative	perstricte	perstricta	perstrictum		perstrictī	perstrictae	perstricta

References

• “perstrictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press