strebula

Latin

Alternative forms
  • stribula

Etymology

Maybe from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Ancient Greek στρεβλός (streblós, “twisted, crooked”) and στρόβος (stróbos, “whirling round”)[1].

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈstre.bu.la/, [ˈs̠t̪rɛbʊɫ̪ä]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈstre.bu.la/, [ˈst̪rɛːbulä]

Noun

strebula n pl (genitive strebulōrum); second declension

  1. (plural only) The flesh about the haunches

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative strebula
Genitive strebulōrum
Dative strebulīs
Accusative strebula
Ablative strebulīs
Vocative strebula

References
  • “strebula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • strebula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  1. Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “strebula”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 601
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