adverb
strictim
strictim (not comparable)
Classical[ˈstrɪk.tĩː]Ecclesiastical[ˈstrik.tim]
Meaning
- not comparablesuperficially
- not comparablebriefly, cursorily, summarily
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- strictim, leviter tangere, attingere, perstringere aliquid
- to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu).
strictim, adv. strictus, from stringo,
I. straitly, closely.
I. Lit. (ante- and postclass., and very rare):
strictim attondere, i. e. close to the skin, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 18: juncta crates, Pall. 1, 13: cithara balteo caelato aptata strictim sustinetur, App. Flor. 2, p. 351, 7.—II. Trop., slightly, superficially.
A. In gen. (Ciceronian, but very rare):
aspicere, Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 162: videre, id. Rosc. Am. 34, 95.—B. In partic., of speech, briefly, cursorily, summarily (freq. and class.):
haec nunc strictim dicta, apertiora fient infra, Varr. L. L. 9, § 39 Müll.: breviter strictimque dicere (opp. copiosissime), Cic. Clu. 10, 29: strictim dicere (opp. multa), id. N. D. 3, 8, 19: subjungere de ceteris artibus, Quint. 1, 10, 1: scribere de aliquā re, Suet. Tib. 73 saep.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
strictim adv.
strictus, superficially, cursorily, summarily, briefly : quasi per transennam strictim aspicere: dici (opp. copiosissime): dicere.
Origins
- Proto-Indo-European*streyg-
- Proto-Indo-European*strinégti
- Proto-Italic*stringō
- Proto-Indo-European*strengʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*stréngʰeti
- Proto-Italic*strengō
- Latinstrictim
Proto-Indo-European *-tim Proto-Italic *-tim Latin -tim Latin strictim From stringō (“draw tight together; touch lightly, graze”) + -tim.