striga

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See also: Striga, strigã, strigă, and štriga

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin striga (a furrow)

Noun[edit]

striga (plural strigae)

  1. (botany) A sharp bristle or hair-like scale.
  2. A stripe or stria.
  3. (architecture) The flute of a column.

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Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From strigo (owl) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈstriɡa]
  • Rhymes: -iɡa
  • Hyphenation: stri‧ga

Adjective[edit]

striga (accusative singular strigan, plural strigaj, accusative plural strigajn)

  1. strigine, relating to owls

Italian[edit]

Verb[edit]

striga

  1. inflection of strigare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Latin[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek στρίγα (stríga), the accusative of στρίξ (stríx, owl), which also gave strī̆x (screech owl; witch), probably of onomatopoeic origin and related to Latin strīdō (to make a shrill sound).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈstri.ɡa/, [ˈs̠t̪rɪɡä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈstri.ɡa/, [ˈst̪riːɡä]
  • Note: the word only occurs with a short vowel in hexametric poetry, but on the evidence of Romance descendants there was a variant with a long vowel; cf. the related term.

Noun[edit]

striga f (genitive strigae); first declension

  1. female evil spirit, nocturnal apparition; a nightmare
    Synonyms: incubus, ephialtēs
    1. vampire
      Synonym: vampȳrus
    2. witch, hag
      Synonyms: volātica, malefica, venēfica, strī̆x
Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative striga strigae
Genitive strigae strigārum
Dative strigae strigīs
Accusative strigam strigās
Ablative strigā strigīs
Vocative striga strigae
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Proto-Italic *strigā, from what looks like a cross of Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (to brush, strip, shear) and Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (to draw, tie).

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Noun[edit]

striga f (genitive strigae); first declension

  1. A strip, row, line.
    1. (agriculture) A windrow.
  2. (surveying) A strip of ground longer than broad.
    Antonym: scamnum
    1. (military) A side-avenue in camp.
Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative striga strigae
Genitive strigae strigārum
Dative strigae strigīs
Accusative strigam strigās
Ablative strigā strigīs
Vocative striga strigae
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References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • striga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • striga 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)
  • striga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • striga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • striga”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Romagnol[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin striga (witch).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Central Romagnol): IPA(key): [ˈstɾiːɡɐ]

Noun[edit]

striga f (plural strig)

  1. witch
    La pêr una striga!
    She looks like a witch!

References[edit]

  • Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 630

Romanian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /striˈɡa/
  • (file)

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Vulgar Latin root *strigāre from Latin strix (screech owl).

Verb[edit]

a striga (third-person singular present strigă, past participle strigat) 1st conj.

  1. to call
    Synonym: chema
  2. to shout, yell, scream
    Synonym: urla
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Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

striga

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of strigă

Slovak[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Derived from Romanian strigă, from Latin strīga.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈstri.ɡa/
  • Hyphenation: stri‧ga

Noun[edit]

striga f (genitive singular strigy, nominative plural strigy, genitive plural stríg, declension pattern of žena)

  1. witch
  2. demon

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Further reading[edit]

  • striga”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Venetian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin striga (evil spirit, compare Friulian strie, Italian strega, Ligurian stria, Lombard stria, and also Romanian strigă), from strīx, from Ancient Greek στρίξ (stríx).

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Noun[edit]

striga f (plural strighe)

  1. witch, sorceress (female who uses magic)

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