See strix on Wiktionary
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"1": "ro",
"2": "striga",
"der": "1",
"t": "to call, shout"
},
"expansion": "⇒ Romanian: striga (“to call, shout”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "⇒ Romanian: striga (“to call, shout”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "scn",
"2": "strìgula",
"der": "1",
"t": "barn owl"
},
"expansion": "⇒ Sicilian: strìgula (“barn owl”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "⇒ Sicilian: strìgula (“barn owl”)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "strigine",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: strigine",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: strigine"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "eo",
"2": "strigo",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Esperanto: strigo",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Esperanto: strigo"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "io",
"2": "strigo",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Ido: strigo",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Ido: strigo"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "strige",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: strige",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: strige"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "estrige",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: estrige",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: estrige"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "estrige",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Spanish: estrige",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Spanish: estrige"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "grc",
"3": "στρίξ",
"4": "",
"5": "screecher"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Ancient Greek στρίξ (stríx, “screecher”)",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "strī̆ga",
"notext": "1",
"t1": "evil spirit, nightmare; vampire; witch"
},
"expansion": "strī̆ga (“evil spirit, nightmare; vampire; witch”)",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "strīdō",
"3": "",
"4": "to screech"
},
"expansion": "Latin strīdō (“to screech”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ancient Greek στρίξ (stríx, “screecher”), which also gave strī̆ga (“evil spirit, nightmare; vampire; witch”), itself likely of onomatopoeic origin and related to Latin strīdō (“to screech”).",
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{
"form": "strī̆x",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "strī̆gis",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "strī̆x",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "strī̆gēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "strī̆gis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "strī̆gum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "strī̆gī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "strī̆gibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "strī̆gem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "strī̆gēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "strī̆ge",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "strī̆gibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "strī̆x",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "strī̆gēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "strī̆x/strī̆g<3>",
"g": "f"
},
"expansion": "strī̆x f (genitive strī̆gis); third declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "strī̆x/strī̆g<3>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "strīga"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Those people, when they cook dinners, when they season them,\nseason them not with seasonings, but with screech-owls\nthat would eat up the living guests' guts.\n(This is in iambic senarii.)",
"ref": "191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus, archived from the original on 2022-10-08, act 3, scene 2, lines 30–32:",
"text": "eī hominēs cēnās ubi coquont, cum condiunt,\nnōn condīmentīs condiunt, sed strīgibus,\nvīvīs convīvīs intestīna quae exedint.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "That tree offered a hanging to an unfortunate neck;\nit offered dreadful crosses to the executioner;\nit gave foul shade to hoarse owls;\nit held the vulture's and screech-owl's eggs on its branches.\n(This is in elegiac couplets.)",
"ref": "16 BCE, Ovid, Amores, archived from the original on 2017-01-06, 1.12, lines 17-20:",
"text": "Praebuit illa arbor miserō suspendia collō,\nCarnificī dīrās praebuit illa crucēs;\nIlla dedit turpēs raucīs būbōnibus umbrās,\nVulturis in rāmīs et strĭgis ōva tulit.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.139–140",
"text": "est illīs strĭgibus nōmen; sed nōminis huius\ncausa, quod horrendum strīdere nocte solent.\nScreech-owls they're called; but the reason for this name is that they are wont to screech dreadfully at night.\n(This is an elegiac couplet; “strī̆x” was associated with and in fact indirectly relates to the Latin strīdō, “to screech”.)"
},
{
"english": "No the dark companion of the tripods [the raven], no burning lightning-bearer [the eagle]\nis there, and no hooting and clawed bird of golden-haired Minerva [the owl]\ncomes auspiciously to the auguries; instead, a vulture and\nhawks up above have rejoiced at their lofty plunder.\nEvil omens are aflight: ominous birds shriek in the clouds,\nand the nocturnal screech-owls and the death-like horned owl cry,\nsinging of loss.\n(This is in dactylic hexameters.)",
"ref": "c. 90 CE, Statius, Thebaid, archived from the original on 2023-02-18, 3.506-512:",
"text": "nōn comes obscūrus tripodum, nōn fulminis ārdēns\nvector adest, flāvaeque sonāns avis unca Minervae\nnōn venit auguriīs melior; quīn vultur et altīs\ndēsuper accipitrēs exultāvēre rapīnīs.\nmōnstra volant: dīrae strīdunt in nūbe volucrēs,\nnocturnaeque gemunt strĭgĕs et fērālia būbō\ndamna canēns.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A kind of owl, probably the screech-owl (considered a bird of ill omen)."
],
"links": [
[
"owl",
"owl"
],
[
"screech-owl",
"screech owl"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"glosses": [
"A kind of owl, probably the screech-owl (considered a bird of ill omen).",
"An evil spirit, a vampire or a harpy who sucked the blood of children and caused nightmares."
],
"links": [
[
"owl",
"owl"
],
[
"screech-owl",
"screech owl"
],
[
"evil",
"evil"
],
[
"spirit",
"spirit"
],
[
"vampire",
"vampire"
],
[
"harpy",
"harpy"
],
[
"nightmare",
"nightmare"
]
],
"qualifier": "according to popular belief",
"raw_glosses": [
"A kind of owl, probably the screech-owl (considered a bird of ill omen).",
"(by extension, according to popular belief) An evil spirit, a vampire or a harpy who sucked the blood of children and caused nightmares."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "volātica"
},
{
"word": "malefica"
},
{
"word": "venēfica"
},
{
"word": "strī̆ga"
}
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"declension-3"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/striːks/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[s̠t̪riːks̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/striks/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[s̠t̪rɪks̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/striks/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[st̪riks]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "strix"
}
{
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"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin feminine nouns",
"Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin terms borrowed from Celtiberian",
"Latin terms borrowed from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia",
"Latin terms derived from Celtiberian",
"Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Latin terms derived from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia",
"Latin third declension nouns",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"la:Owls"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "qsb-ibe"
},
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"name": "bor"
},
{
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"2": "xce",
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{
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"1": "la",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*streyg-",
"4": "",
"5": "to brush, strip, shear"
},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "striga",
"3": "",
"4": "strip"
},
"expansion": "Latin striga (“strip”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "strigis",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
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"inflection-template"
]
},
{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "strigēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "strigis",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "strigum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "strigī",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "strigibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "strigem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "strigēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "strige",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "strigibus",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "strix",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "strigēs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "strix/strig<3>",
"g": "f"
},
"expansion": "strix f (genitive strigis); third declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "strix/strig<3>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin hapax legomena",
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Requests for translations of Latin quotations",
"Spanish Latin"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "Pliny, Natural History 33.62",
"text": "Hispānia strigēs vocat aurī parvolās māssās."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A golden nugget."
],
"links": [
[
"nugget",
"nugget"
]
],
"qualifier": "dubious",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Spain, hapax, dubious) A golden nugget."
],
"tags": [
"Spain",
"declension-3",
"feminine"
]
}
],
"word": "strix"
}
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"subsection": "noun",
"title": "strix",
"trace": ""
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Spain, hapax, dubious",
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