strangle
/stˈɹæŋɡəl/STRANG-guhl
/stˈɹæŋɡəl/STRANG-guhl
Meaningto choke with a cord
Common meaning: to kill by squeezing the throat
- stranga halter, a cord for chokingLiddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), p. 1435 (approximate) · scan
- lenoun ending (from Latin -ulus)
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√STARG‘to stretch tight’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 427, p. 745 · scan
- Greekστραγγάλη‘a halter, a cord for choking’
- Latinstrangulare
- Frenchestrangler
- Englishstrangle‘to kill by squeezing the throat’ · today
strang also in: strangulation
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Greek στραγγάλη ‘a halter, a cord for choking’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), entry στραγγάλη, p. 1435 · dictionary scan
Roots
- στραγγάλη Greek “a halter, a cord for choking”
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