strabus

Esperanto

Verb

strabus

1. conditional of strabi

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek στρᾰβός (strabós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstra.bus/, [ˈs̠t̪räbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstra.bus/, [ˈst̪räːbus]

Adjective

strabus (feminine straba, neuter strabum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (of eyes) squinting, crooked, slanted

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	strabus	straba	strabum		strabī	strabae	straba
genitive	strabī	strabae	strabī		strabōrum	strabārum	strabōrum
dative	strabō	strabae	strabō		strabīs
accusative	strabum	strabam	strabum		strabōs	strabās	straba
ablative	strabō	strabā	strabō		strabīs
vocative	strabe	straba	strabum		strabī	strabae	straba

Derived terms

• strabō
• Strabō

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: strãmbu
• → Esperanto: strabi (verb)
• Friulian: stramp
• Italian: strambo
• Occitan: estrambo (Provençal)
• Piedmontese: stramb
• Romanian: strâmb
• Sicilian: strammari (verb)
• Spanish: zambo

References

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