constrictus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin cōn-

Proto-Indo-European *streyg-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *strinégti

Proto-Italic *stringō

Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *stréngʰeti

Proto-Italic *strengō

Latin stringō

Latin cōnstringō

Latin cōnstrictus

Perfect passive participle of cōnstringō.

Participle

cōnstrictus (feminine cōnstricta, neuter cōnstrictum); first/second-declension participle

1. bound together
2. tied up
3. inhibited

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cōnstrictus	cōnstricta	cōnstrictum		cōnstrictī	cōnstrictae	cōnstricta
genitive	cōnstrictī	cōnstrictae	cōnstrictī		cōnstrictōrum	cōnstrictārum	cōnstrictōrum
dative	cōnstrictō	cōnstrictae	cōnstrictō		cōnstrictīs
accusative	cōnstrictum	cōnstrictam	cōnstrictum		cōnstrictōs	cōnstrictās	cōnstricta
ablative	cōnstrictō	cōnstrictā	cōnstrictō		cōnstrictīs
vocative	cōnstricte	cōnstricta	cōnstrictum		cōnstrictī	cōnstrictae	cōnstricta

Descendants

• Catalan: constret
• English: constrict, constraint
• French: contraint
• Italian: constretto, costretto

References

• “constrictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “constrictus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be the slave of superstition: superstitione teneri, constrictum esse, obligatum esse