constriction

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts. countable,uncountable
    — The very structural uniqueness of Esperanto makes it hard to translate into ethnic languages – not least because many of those who write in Esperanto do so out of their rejection of the constriction that they experience when writing in their native languages.
  2. A narrow part of something; a stricture. countable,uncountable
    — […] greatest breadth at a point about half way between the constriction and the ends […]
  3. A compression. countable,uncountable

词形变化

constrictions plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Late Latin cōn-
Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *streyg-der.
Late Latin stringō
Late Latin cōnstringō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Late Latin -tiō
Late Latin cōnstrictiōbor.
English constriction
Borrowed from Late Latin constrictio, constrictionis, from Latin constringo.
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