# striga
## English
### Etymology

From Latin striga (“a furrow”).

### Noun

striga (plural strigae)
* (botany) A sharp bristle or hair-like scale.
* A stripe or stria.
* (architecture) The flute of a column.

#### Related terms

* strigillose

### Anagrams

* gratis, trigas

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From strigo (“owl”) +‎ -a.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈstriɡa]
* Rhymes: -iɡa
* Hyphenation: stri‧ga

### Adjective

striga (accusative singular strigan, plural strigaj, accusative plural strigajn)
* strigine, relating to owls

## Italian
### Verb

striga
* inflection of strigare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* gratis, stragi

## Latin
### Etymology 1

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”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈstri.ɡa/, [ˈs̠t̪rɪɡä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈstri.ɡa/, [ˈst̪riːɡä]
* 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.

#### Noun

striga f (genitive strigae); first declension
* female evil spirit, nocturnal apparition; a nightmare
    Synonyms: incubus, ephialtēs
** vampire
    Synonym: vampȳrus
** witch, hag
    Synonyms: volātica, malefica, venēfica, strī̆x

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

##### Related terms

* strī̆x

##### Descendants

* → Albanian: shtrigë
* Aromanian: strigã
* → Czech: striga
* → French: stryge
* Friulian: strie
* Italian: strega, striga
* Ladin: stria
* Gallo-Italic:
** Ligurian: stria
** Lombard: stria
** Piedmontese: strìa
** Romagnol: striga
* Old French: estrie
* → Polish: strzyga (possibly through Romanian)
* Portuguese: estria
* → Portuguese: estriga
* Romanian: strigă
* Romansch: stria, streia
* Sardinian: istria, istriga, iltria
* Sicilian: strija
* → Serbo-Croatian: štrȉga / штри̏га
* → Slovak: striga
* → Spanish: estriga
* Venetan: striga

### Etymology 2

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”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈstri.ɡa/, [ˈs̠t̪rɪɡä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈstri.ɡa/, [ˈst̪riːɡä]

#### Noun

striga f (genitive strigae); first declension
* A strip, row, line.
** (agriculture) A windrow.
* (surveying) A strip of ground longer than broad.
    Antonym: scamnum
** (military) A side-avenue in camp.

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

##### Related terms

* stria (< *strig-ia)

### References

* “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)

### Further reading

* “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

### Anagrams

* gratis

## Romagnol
### Etymology

From Latin striga (“witch”).

### Pronunciation

   * (Central Romagnol): IPA: [ˈstɾiːɡɐ]
      * (Ville Unite):

### Noun

striga f (plural strig)
* witch
    La pêr una striga!She looks like a witch!

### References

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

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /striˈɡa/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Verb

a striga (third-person singular present strigă, past participle strigat) 1st conj.
* to call
    Synonym: chema
* to shout, yell, scream
    Synonym: urla

##### Derived terms

* strigare
* strigăt
* strigător

##### Related terms

* strigoi, strigă

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

striga
* definite nominative/accusative singular of strigă

## Slovak
### Etymology

Derived from Romanian strigă, from Latin strīga.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈstriɡa]
* Hyphenation: stri‧ga

### Noun

striga f (male equivalent strigôň, related adjective stridží)
* witch
    Synonym: bosorka
* (figurative) hag, crone
    Synonym: bosorka

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “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, 2003–2024

## Venetan
### Alternative forms

* stria, strìa

### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstri.ɡa/

### Noun

striga f (plural strighe)
* witch, sorceress (female who uses magic)

#### Related terms

* strigar