adjective

strīdŭlus

fem. strīdŭla · neut. strīdŭlum

creaking; rattling; hissing poetic ••

creaking, rattling, hissing, whizzing, buzzing, stridulous (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): stridula cornus (i. e. hasta), Verg. A. 12, 267: fraxinus, Claud. in Ruf. 3, 218: plaustra, Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 30: fax lacrimoso stridula fumo fuit, id. M. 10, 6: manus monstri (i. e. elephanti), Sil. 9, 627: stridula et tenuis vox, Sen. Ep. 56, 2: examina apum, Claud. Cons. Hon. 4, 380.

Perseus ID: n45580 Key: stridulus