perstringo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɛrˈstrɪŋ.ɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [perˈst̪riŋ.ɡo]
Verb
perstringō (present infinitive perstringere, perfect active perstrīnxī, supine perstrictum); third conjugation
- to bind tightly together; to draw together or up, contract
- to graze, graze against a thing
- (transferred sense) to make blunt by grazing against, to make dull, to dull
- to seize
- (in participle) to touch or wound slightly with words
- to blame, censure, reprimand, reprove
- (in speaking) to touch on slightly, glance over, narrate briefly
- belittled, slighted
Conjugation
Conjugation of perstringō (third conjugation)
References
- “perstringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “perstringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “perstringo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): strictim, leviter tangere, attingere, perstringere aliquid
- to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): strictim, leviter tangere, attingere, perstringere aliquid