strigă

See also: striga, Striga, strigã, and štriga

Romanian

strigă

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin strīga, from strix, from Ancient Greek στρίξ (stríx).

Noun

strigă f (plural strigi)

1. barn owl (An owl of the genus Tyto)
2. an evil spirit or ghost
3. a death's-head hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos)

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	strigă	striga		strigi	strigile
genitive-dative	strigi	strigii		strigi	strigilor
vocative	strigă, strigo			strigilor

Derived terms

• strigoi
• strigoaică

Related terms

• striga

See also

• cucuvea
• vrăjitoare

Etymology 2

Verb

strigă

1. inflection of striga:
   1. third-person singular/plural present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative