strebula

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Maybe from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Ancient Greek στρεβλός (streblós, twisted, crooked) and στρόβος (stróbos, whirling round).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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strebula n pl (genitive strebulōrum); second declension

  1. (plural only) The flesh about the haunches

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

References

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  • strebula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • strebula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “strebula”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 601