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strictus

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Latin

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Etymology

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Perfect passive participle of stringō (tighten, compress).

Pronunciation

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Participle

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strictus (feminine stricta, neuter strictum, adverb strictim); first/second-declension participle

  1. tightened, compressed, having been tightened
  2. drawn (a sword)

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative strictus stricta strictum strictī strictae stricta
genitive strictī strictae strictī strictōrum strictārum strictōrum
dative strictō strictae strictō strictīs
accusative strictum strictam strictum strictōs strictās stricta
ablative strictō strictā strictō strictīs
vocative stricte stricta strictum strictī strictae stricta
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Descendants

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References

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  • strictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • strictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • strictus 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)
  • strictus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to throw oneself on the enemy with drawn sword: strictis gladiis in hostem ferri