stria

Borrowed from Latin stria (“furrow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹaɪə/

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• Rhymes: -aɪə

stria (plural striae or striæ)

1. A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes.
2. (architecture) One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc.
3. A stretch mark.

• strial

• ISTAR, Ritsa, Sarti, Sitar, Stair, Trias, airts, arist, astir, sitar, stair, tarsi, tiars, tisar

• strìa (Carpigiano)

From Latin strīga.

• Hyphenation: stri‧a

stria f (plural strii) (Mirandola)

1. witch, hag

• striarìa

• Homophones: strias, striât

stria

1. third-person singular past historic of strier

Borrowed from Latin stria.

stria f (plural strie)

1. (pathology) stria
2. (architecture) stria, channel
3. streak, stria

stria

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

• -astri, Taris, Trias, astri, rista, rista', ristà, sarti, sitar, stari, stira, tarsi

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈst̪riː.a]

From Proto-Italic *strig-jā, from what looks like a cross of Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to brush, strip, shear”) and Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“to draw, tie”). Cognate to Latin striga, Latin stringō, English streak, German Striemen (“streak, stripe”), Old High German strimo, Dutch striem.

stria f (genitive striae); first declension

1. A furrow, channel, groove, hollow.
   1. (architecture) The flute of a column.
   2. A fold of drapery, pleat.

First-declension noun.

• striāta
• striātūra
• striō
• striga

• Italian: striscia (+ fascia)

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: estria
• → English: stria
• → Italian: stria
• → Spanish: estría
• → Portuguese: estria

• “stria” on page 2014 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
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “stria”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume

stria f (genitive striae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) alternative form of strīga (“witch”)

First-declension noun.

• “stria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "stria", 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)
• stria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Latin striga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstria/

stria f (plural strie)

1. witch

From Latin strīga, from strīx, from Ancient Greek στρίξ (stríx).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstria/

stria f (plural strie)

1. witch

Borrowed from French strier.

• IPA^(key): /striˈa/

a stria (third-person singular present striează, past participle striat) 1st conjugation

1. to streak, to stripe

• “stria”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈstria/

stria f (plural strie)

1. alternative form of striga