struppus

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, twisted band), from στρέφω (stréphō, to twist).

Noun

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struppus m (genitive struppī); second declension

  1. strap, band, thong
  2. garter

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

Descendants

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  • Galician: estrobo
  • Romanian: strup

References

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  • struppus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • struppus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • struppus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Strippe” in Duden online
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN