striga

Latin striga (“a furrow”)

striga (plural strigae)

1. (botany) A sharp bristle or hair-like scale.
2. A stripe or stria.
3. (architecture) The flute of a column.

• strigillose

• gratis, trigas

striga

1. third-person singular present indicative of strigare
2. second-person singular imperative of strigare

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈstri.ɡa/, [ˈstrɪ.ɡa]

From strix (screech owl).

strīga f (genitive strīgae); first declension

1. evil spirit, witch, hag, vampire

First declension.

From strix (groove, furrow).

striga f (genitive strigae); first declension

1. row, strip, swath

First declension.

• Portuguese: estria, estriga
• Spanish: estriga

• striga in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• striga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• striga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• striga in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• striga in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From Vulgar Latin root *strigāre from Latin strix (“screech owl”).

a striga (third-person singular present strigă, past participle strigat) 1st conj.

1. to call
2. to shout, yell, scream

• (call): chema
• (shout, yell): urla

• strigare
• strigăt
• strigător

• strigoi, strigă

From Romanian strigă, from Latin strīga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstri.ɡa/
• Hyphenation: stri‧ga

striga f (genitive singular strigy, nominative plural strigy, genitive plural stríg, declension pattern of žena)

1. witch
2. demon

• strigôň - a male counterpart of striga

• striga in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

• stria, strìa

From Latin striga (evil spirit, compare Friulian strie, Italian strega, Ligurian stria, Lombard stria, and also Romanian strigă), from strīx, from Ancient Greek στρίγξ (strínx).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstri.ɡa/

striga f (plural strighe)

1. witch, sorceress (female who uses magic)

• strigar