strupo

Inherited from Latin stuprum (“dishonor, violation”), through metathesis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstru.po/
• Rhymes: -upo
• Hyphenation: strù‧po

strupo m (plural strupi)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of stupro
   • early 14^th century, Dante, “Canto VII”, in Inferno, lines 7–12:

     Poi si rivolse a quella ’nfiata labbia,
     e disse: «Taci, maladetto lupo!
     consuma dentro te con la tua rabbia.
     Non è sanza cagion l'andare al cupo:
     vuolsi ne l’alto, là dove Michele
     fé la vendetta del superbo strupo».

     He then turned to that bloated lip, and said. "Quiet, you cursed wolf! Consume yourself from within with your own rage. The journey to the darkness is not without a cause: thus is willed on high, where Michael took revenge for the proud violence."

• strupare
• strupatore

• stupro, stuprò