stroppus

Latin

Alternative forms

• struppus

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *stregʷʰ-der.?

Ancient Greek στρέφω (stréphō)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Hellenic *-os

Ancient Greek -ος (-os)

Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos)der.

Latin stroppus

Derived from Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “rope”).

Noun

stroppus m (genitive stroppī); second declension

1. strap, band, thong
2. garter
3. wreath

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	stroppus	stroppī
genitive	stroppī	stroppōrum
dative	stroppō	stroppīs
accusative	stroppum	stroppōs
ablative	stroppō	stroppīs
vocative	stroppe	stroppī

Descendants

• Aromanian: strop
• Catalan: estrop
• English: strap, strop
• French: estrope
• Galician: estrobo
• Spanish: estrobo
• Italian: stroppo
• Romanian: strup
• Portuguese: estrovo, estropo

References

• “stroppus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "stroppus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “stroppus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.