strictura

== Latin == === Etymology === From strictum + -tūra. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [strɪkˈtuː.ra] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [strikˈtuː.ra] === Noun === strictūra f (genitive strictūrae); first declension A contraction, compression, stricture. Pressure, suffering, torment. A hardened mass of wrought iron, bar of iron, ore (under a forge). 29-19 B.C.E., Virgil, Aeneid, 8.420 striduntque cauernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat Chalybian ores hiss in the caverns, and from the furnace mouths puff the hot-panting fires ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “strictura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “strictura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "strictura", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “strictura”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.