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strictura

strictura

Latin

Noun

strictūra f ‎(genitive strictūrae); first declension

A contraction, compression, stricture.
Pressure, suffering, torment.
A hardened mass of wrought iron, bar of iron, ore (under a forge).
- 29-19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid, 8.420
  striduntque cauernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat
  Chalybian ores hiss in the caverns, and from the furnace mouths puff the hot-panting fires

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	strictūra	strictūrae
genitive	strictūrae	strictūrārum
dative	strictūrae	strictūrīs
accusative	strictūram	strictūrās
ablative	strictūrā	strictūrīs
vocative	strictūra	strictūrae

Related terms

strictē
strictiō
strictīvus

strictor
strictus
stringō

Descendants

English: stricture
French: stricture
Italian: strettura

Portuguese: estreitura, estritura
Romanian: strâmtură, strictură
Spanish: estrechura

References

strictura in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
strictura in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
STRICTURA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “strictura”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.