strictus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of stringō (“tighten, compress”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈstrik.tus/, [ˈs̠t̪rɪkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstrik.tus/, [ˈst̪rikt̪us]

Participle

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

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

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	strictus	stricta	strictum		strictī	strictae	stricta
Genitive	strictī	strictae	strictī		strictōrum	strictārum	strictōrum
Dative	strictō		strictō		strictīs
Accusative	strictum	strictam	strictum		strictōs	strictās	stricta
Ablative	strictō	strictā	strictō		strictīs
Vocative	stricte	stricta	strictum		strictī	strictae	stricta

Related terms

• strictiō
• strictor
• strictē
• strictīvus
• strictūra
• stringō
• sēnsū strictō

 

Descendants

• → Albanian: shtrenjtë
• Aromanian: strimtu, strãmtu
• Asturian: estrechu
• → Breton: strizh
• Catalan: estret, → estricte
• → English: strict
• → French: strict
• Old French: estroit, estreit, estroict
  • → English: strait
  • French: étroit, étreint
  • Norman: êtrait (Jersey)
  • Walloon: stroet
• Friulian: stret, strent
• Galician: estreito, → estrito
• Istriot: strento
• Italian: stretto
• Ladin: strent
• Megleno-Romanian: strimt
• Occitan: estrech, estreit
• Piedmontese: strèit
• Portuguese: estreito, → estrito
• Romanian: strâmt
• Romansch: stretg, stret
• Sardinian: istrintu, strintu
• Sicilian: strittu
• Spanish: estrecho, → estricto
• Venetian: streto, stret, strento, strent

References

• “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