perstringo

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

perstringō (present infinitive perstringere, perfect active perstrīnxī, supine perstrictum); third conjugation

  1. to bind tightly together; to draw together or up, contract
  2. to graze, graze against a thing
  3. (transferred sense) to make blunt by grazing against, to make dull, to dull
  4. to seize
  5. (in participle) to touch or wound slightly with words
  6. to blame, censure, reprimand, reprove
    Synonyms: obiūrgō, castīgō, arguō, corripiō, accūsō, īnsector, incūsō, damnō, obloquor, exprobrō, increpō, acclāmō, inclāmō, animadvertō, reprehendō, compellō
  7. (in speaking) to touch on slightly, glance over, narrate briefly
  8. belittled, slighted

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