constriction

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin cōn-

Proto-Indo-European *streyg-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *strinégti

Proto-Italic *stringō

Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *stréngʰeti

Proto-Italic *strengō

Latin stringō

Latin cōnstringō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Late Latin cōnstrictiōbor.

English constriction

Borrowed from Late Latin constrictio, constrictionis, from Latin constringo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈstɹɪk.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkʃən

Noun

constriction (countable and uncountable, plural constrictions)

1. The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts.
   • 2008, Humphrey Tonkin, “Preface”, in Geoffrey Sutton, Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto 1887–2007, Mondial, →ISBN, page 2:

     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.
   • 1861, Robert Kaye Greville, Description of New and Rare Diatoms: Serie I-XX, page 78:

     […] greatest breadth at a point about half way between the constriction and the ends […]

3. A compression.

Derived terms

• arterioconstriction
• bronchoconstriction
• constriction ring syndrome
• hyperconstriction
• nanoconstriction
• preconstriction
• pupilloconstriction
• reconstriction
• vasoconstriction

Related terms

• constrict
• constraint
• constrain
• restriction

Translations

the act of narrowing

• Bulgarian: свиване (bg) n (svivane), стягане (bg) n (stjagane)
• Catalan: constricció f
• Czech: zúžení n
• Irish: ainleog f
• Kashmiri: ژۆمرَن (ċomran)
• Spanish: constricción (es) f
• Swedish: förträngning (sv) c

A narrow part of something; a stricture

• Bulgarian: стеснение (bg) n (stesnenie)
• Russian: сужение (ru) n (suženije)
• Swedish: förträngning (sv) c

A compression

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.tʁik.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

constriction f (plural constrictions)

1. constriction

Further reading

• “constriction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012