perstringo

== Latin == === Etymology === From per- + stringō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɛrˈstrɪŋ.ɡoː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [perˈstriŋ.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 Synonyms: obiūrgō, castīgō, arguō, corripiō, accūsō, īnsector, incūsō, damnō, obloquor, exprobrō, increpō, acclāmō, inclāmō, animadvertō, reprehendō, compellō (in speaking) to touch on slightly, glance over, narrate briefly belittled, slighted ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: perstringe === 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.