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strictus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of stringō (tighten, compress).

Pronunciation

Participle

strictus (feminine stricta, neuter strictum, adverb strictim); first/second-declension participle

  1. tightened, compressed, having been tightened
  2. drawn (a sword)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

References

  • strictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • strictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "strictus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • strictus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to throw oneself on the enemy with drawn sword: strictis gladiis in hostem ferri
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