stroppus

Latin

Alternative forms

• struppus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “rope”).

Noun

stroppus m (genitive stroppī); second declension

1. strap, band, thong
2. garter
3. wreath

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	stroppus	stroppī
Genitive	stroppī	stroppōrum
Dative	stroppō	stroppīs
Accusative	stroppum	stroppōs
Ablative	stroppō	stroppīs
Vocative	stroppe	stroppī

Descendants

• Aromanian: strop
• Catalan: estrop
• English: strap, strop
• French: estrope

• Galician: estrobo
• Italian: stroppo
• Romanian: strup
• Portuguese: estrovo, estropo

References

• “stroppus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stroppus 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)
• stroppus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.