strictura

Latin

Etymology

From strictus, perfect passive participle of stringō (“tighten, compress”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /strikˈtuː.ra/, [s̠t̪rɪkˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /strikˈtu.ra/, [st̪rikˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

strictūra f (genitive strictūrae); first declension

1. A contraction, compression, stricture.
2. Pressure, suffering, torment.
3. A hardened mass of wrought iron, bar of iron, ore (under a forge).
   • 29-19 B.C.E., 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

Declension

First-declension noun.

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• strictura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.