striga

From 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

From strigo (“owl”) +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstriɡa/
• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Hyphenation: stri‧ga

striga (accusative singular strigan, plural strigaj, accusative plural strigajn)

1. strigine, relating to owls

striga

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

• gratis, stragi

Borrowed from Ancient Greek στρίγα (stríga), the accusative of στρίξ (stríx, “owl”), which also gave strī̆x (“screech owl; witch”), probably of onomatopoeic origin and related to Latin strīdō (“to make a shrill sound”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstrɪ.ɡa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈst̪riː.ɡa]
• Note: the word only occurs with a short vowel in hexametric poetry, but on the evidence of Romance descendants there was a variant with a long vowel; cf. the related term.

striga f (genitive strigae); first declension

1. female evil spirit, nocturnal apparition; a nightmare

   Synonyms: incubus, ephialtēs

   1. vampire

      Synonym: vampȳrus

   2. witch, hag

      Synonyms: volātica, malefica, venēfica, strī̆x

First-declension noun.

• strī̆x

From Proto-Italic *strigā, from what looks like a cross of Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to brush, strip, shear”) and Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“to draw, tie”).

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

striga f (genitive strigae); first declension

1. A strip, row, line.
   1. (agriculture) A windrow.
2. (surveying) A strip of ground longer than broad.

   Antonym: scamnum

   1. (military) A side-avenue in camp.

First-declension noun.

• stria (< *strig-ia)

• “striga” on page 2015 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
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “striga”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German)

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

• gratis

From Latin striga (“witch”).

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈstɾiːɡɐ]

• (Ville Unite):

striga f (plural strig)

1. witch

   La pêr una striga!

   She looks like a witch!

• Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 630

• IPA^(key): /striˈɡa/

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin root *strigāre (“scream like a screech owl”) from Latin strix (“screech owl”). Compare Megleno-Romanian strig, strigari.

a striga (third-person singular present strigă, past participle strigat, third-person subjunctive strige) 1st conjugation

1. to call

   Synonym: chema

2. to shout, yell, scream

   Synonym: urla

• strigare
• strigăt
• strigător

• strigoi, strigă

striga

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of strigă

Derived from Romanian strigă, from Latin strīga.

• IPA^(key): [ˈstriɡa]
• Hyphenation: stri‧ga

striga f (male equivalent strigôň, relational adjective stridží)

1. witch

   Synonym: bosorka

2. (figurative) hag, crone

   Synonym: bosorka

• “striga”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• 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 στρίξ (stríx).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstri.ɡa/

striga f (plural strighe)

1. witch, sorceress (female who uses magic)

• strigar