"strix" meaning in Latin

See strix in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /striːks/ [Classical-Latin], [s̠t̪riːks̠] [Classical-Latin], /striks/ [Classical-Latin], [s̠t̪rɪks̠] [Classical-Latin], /striks/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [st̪riks] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{bor+|la|grc|στρίξ||screecher}} Borrowed from Ancient Greek στρίξ (stríx, “screecher”), {{doublet|la|strī̆ga|notext=1|t1=evil spirit, nightmare; vampire; witch}} strī̆ga (“evil spirit, nightmare; vampire; witch”), {{cog|la|strīdō||to screech}} Latin strīdō (“to screech”) Head templates: {{la-noun|strī̆x/strī̆g<3>|g=f}} strī̆x f (genitive strī̆gis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|strī̆x/strī̆g<3>}} Forms: strī̆x [canonical, feminine], strī̆gis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], strī̆x [nominative, singular], strī̆gēs [nominative, plural], strī̆gis [genitive, singular], strī̆gum [genitive, plural], strī̆gī [dative, singular], strī̆gibus [dative, plural], strī̆gem [accusative, singular], strī̆gēs [accusative, plural], strī̆ge [ablative, singular], strī̆gibus [ablative, plural], strī̆x [singular, vocative], strī̆gēs [plural, vocative]
  1. A kind of owl, probably the screech-owl (considered a bird of ill omen). Tags: declension-3 Categories (lifeform): Owls
    Sense id: en-strix-la-noun-qtSzzsFI Disambiguation of Owls: 43 43 13 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 42 42 17
  2. 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.
    Tags: broadly, declension-3 Categories (lifeform): Owls Synonyms: volātica, malefica, venēfica, strī̆ga
    Sense id: en-strix-la-noun-WvqEqoI- Disambiguation of Owls: 43 43 13 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 42 42 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: strīga
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Etymology: Possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia such as Celtiberian, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to brush, strip, shear”) and cognate to Latin striga (“strip”). Etymology templates: {{bor|la|qsb-ibe}} a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, {{bor|la|xce|-}} Celtiberian, {{der|la|ine-pro|*streyg-||to brush, strip, shear}} Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to brush, strip, shear”), {{cog|la|striga||strip}} Latin striga (“strip”) Head templates: {{la-noun|strix/strig<3>|g=f}} strix f (genitive strigis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|strix/strig<3>}} Forms: strigis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], strix [nominative, singular], strigēs [nominative, plural], strigis [genitive, singular], strigum [genitive, plural], strigī [dative, singular], strigibus [dative, plural], strigem [accusative, singular], strigēs [accusative, plural], strige [ablative, singular], strigibus [ablative, plural], strix [singular, vocative], strigēs [plural, vocative]
  1. (Spain, hapax, dubious) A golden nugget. Tags: Spain, declension-3, feminine Categories (lifeform): Owls
    Sense id: en-strix-la-noun-Vh5FH6gt Disambiguation of Owls: 43 43 13 Categories (other): Latin hapax legomena, Spanish Latin, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 42 42 17 Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the third declension: 23 24 53
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "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,
      "templates": [
        {
          "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,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "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”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "strī̆x/strī̆g<3>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "strīga"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "42 42 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 43 13",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Owls",
          "orig": "la:Owls",
          "parents": [
            "Birds of prey",
            "Birds",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "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"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A kind of owl, probably the screech-owl (considered a bird of ill omen)."
      ],
      "id": "en-strix-la-noun-qtSzzsFI",
      "links": [
        [
          "owl",
          "owl"
        ],
        [
          "screech-owl",
          "screech owl"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "42 42 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 43 13",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Owls",
          "orig": "la:Owls",
          "parents": [
            "Birds of prey",
            "Birds",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-strix-la-noun-WvqEqoI-",
      "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"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "qsb-ibe"
      },
      "expansion": "a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "xce",
        "3": "-"
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      "expansion": "Celtiberian",
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    {
      "args": {
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    }
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  "etymology_text": "Possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia such as Celtiberian, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to brush, strip, shear”) and cognate to Latin striga (“strip”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strigis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "la-ndecl",
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      "form": "strix",
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        "singular"
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      "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"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "strix/strig<3>",
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      },
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      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin hapax legomena",
          "parents": [
            "Hapax legomena",
            "Terms by usage"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish Latin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 42 17",
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          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 24 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 43 13",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "la",
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            "Birds of prey",
            "Birds",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Pliny, Natural History 33.62",
          "text": "Hispānia strigēs vocat aurī parvolās māssās."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A golden nugget."
      ],
      "id": "en-strix-la-noun-Vh5FH6gt",
      "links": [
        [
          "nugget",
          "nugget"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "dubious",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Spain, hapax, dubious) A golden nugget."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Spain",
        "declension-3",
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "strix"
}
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            "der": "1",
            "t": "to call, shout"
          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
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    },
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      "depth": 1,
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            "2": "strìgula",
            "der": "1",
            "t": "barn owl"
          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
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    },
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      "depth": 1,
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          "name": "desc"
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    },
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      "depth": 1,
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            "2": "strigo",
            "bor": "1"
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          "name": "desc"
        }
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    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
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            "1": "io",
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            "bor": "1"
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          "name": "desc"
        }
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    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "strige",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: strige",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: strige"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
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            "2": "estrige",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: estrige",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: estrige"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "estrige",
            "bor": "1"
          },
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        }
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    }
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        "2": "grc",
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        "4": "",
        "5": "screecher"
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      "name": "bor+"
    },
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        "2": "strī̆ga",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "strīdō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to screech"
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    }
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      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "feminine"
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    },
    {
      "form": "strī̆gis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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        "inflection-template"
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        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "strī̆gēs",
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "strī̆gum",
      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "strī̆gī",
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        "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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    }
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  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "strīga"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "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"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A kind of owl, probably the screech-owl (considered a bird of ill omen)."
      ],
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        [
          "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"
      ]
    }
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  "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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        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*streyg-",
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    {
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        "1": "la",
        "2": "striga",
        "3": "",
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strigis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
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        "table-tags"
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        "inflection-template"
      ]
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      "form": "strix",
      "source": "declension",
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "form": "strigēs",
      "source": "declension",
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        "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"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "strix/strig<3>",
        "g": "f"
      },
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      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
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      },
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    }
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  "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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  "section": "Latin",
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  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Spain, hapax, dubious",
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