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6-letter words (2 found)

GRATIS,STRIGA,

5-letter words (23 found)

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4-letter words (43 found)

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3-letter words (35 found)

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2-letter words (12 found)

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Definitions and meaning of striga

striga

Etymology

Latin striga (“a furrow”)

Noun

striga (plural strigae)

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

Related terms

  • strigillose

Anagrams

  • gratis, trigas

Esperanto

Etymology

From strigo (“owl”) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

  1. strigine, relating to owls

Italian

Verb

striga

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

Anagrams

  • gratis, stragi

Latin

Etymology 1

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

  • (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

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

First-declension noun.

Related terms
  • strī̆x
Descendants

Etymology 2

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”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈstri.ɡa/, [ˈs̠t̪rɪɡä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈstri.ɡa/, [ˈst̪riːɡä]

Noun

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

First-declension noun.

Related terms
  • stria (< *strig-ia)

References

  • “striga” on page 2015 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “stringō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 591
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “striga”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German)

Further reading

  • “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

Anagrams

  • gratis

Romagnol

Etymology

From Latin striga (“witch”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

striga f (plural strig)

  1. witch

References

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /striˈɡa/

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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

  1. to call
    Synonym: chema
  2. to shout, yell, scream
    Synonym: urla
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • strigare
  • strigăt
  • strigător
Related terms
  • strigoi, strigă

Etymology 2

Noun

striga

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of strigă

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Romanian strigă, from Latin strīga.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

  1. witch
  2. demon

Declension

Related terms

  • strigôň - a male counterpart of striga

Further reading

  • “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

Alternative forms

  • stria, strìa

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstri.ɡa/

Noun

striga f (plural strighe)

  1. witch, sorceress (female who uses magic)

Related terms

  • strigar

Source: wiktionary.org