astringo
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /asˈtrin.ɡo/
- Rhymes: -inɡo
- Hyphenation: a‧strìn‧go
Verb
astringo
- first-person singular present indicative of astringere
Anagrams
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [asˈtrɪŋ.ɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [asˈt̪riŋ.ɡo]
Verb
astringō (present infinitive astringere, perfect active astrīnxī, supine astrictum); third conjugation
- to draw close, bind or tie together; tighten, contract
- to check, repress, restrain
- to put under obligation, oblige, necessitate
Conjugation
Conjugation of astringō (third conjugation)
Descendants
- French: astreindre
- Italian: astringere
- Occitan: astrénher
- Romanian: astrânge
- Spanish: astringir, astreñir
References
- “astringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “astringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- astringo 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 speech rhythmical: numeris orationem astringere, vincire
- to commit a crime and so make oneself liable to the consequences of it: scelere se devincire, se obstringere, astringi
- to bind some one by an oath: iureiurando aliquem astringere
- to make a speech rhythmical: numeris orationem astringere, vincire