struppus

Latin

Alternative forms

• stroppus, strupus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “twisted band”), from στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”).

Noun

struppus m (genitive struppī); second declension

1. strap, band, thong
2. garter

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	struppus	struppī
genitive	struppī	struppōrum
dative	struppō	struppīs
accusative	struppum	struppōs
ablative	struppō	struppīs
vocative	struppe	struppī

Descendants

• Galician: estrobo
• Romanian: strup

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