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strada [It], street.
strana [Russ], land; country; region.
Strasse [Ger], street.
stratum super stratum [L], layer upon layer.
strenua inertia [L], energetic idleness; masterly inactivity: Horace
(adapted).
strepitoso [It], noisy; loud; impetuous: music.
stretto [It; pi. stretti], strait; in a fugue, the part where the subject and
answer overlap; in an opera or oratorio, a quickening of the tempo
at the end of a movement: music.
stricto sensu [L], in a strict sense: opposite of lato sensu.
strictum ius [L], strict law; the strict letter of the law.
stringendo [It], in accelerated time: music.
stromenti [It], instruments. —stromenti da arco, bow instruments;
strings. —stromenti da fiato, wind instruments. —stromenti da percossa,
percussion instruments. —stromenti da tasto, keyboard instruments.
—stromenti di corda, string instruments: all music.
Stube [Ger; pi. Stuben], room; sitting room. —Stubenleben, sedentary
life. —Bierstube, beerhall. —Weinstube, wine room in a tavern; wine
shop.
Stück [Ger; pi. Stücke], a piece.
Stückchen [Ger], a little piece; scrap; music, air.
studiis et rebus honestis [L], by honorable pursuits and studies.
Studium immane loquendi [L], an insatiable need for talking: Ovid
(adapted).
stupa [Skr], Buddhist monument or shrine; a tope.
Sturm und Drang [Ger], storm and stress; a period of revolt and unrest,
esp. in German literature, during the latter part of the 18th century.
sua cuique sunt vitia [L], every man has his own vices.
sua cuique utilitas [L], to everything its own use: Tacitus.
sua cuique voluptas [L], every man has his own pleasures.
sua muñera mittit cum hamo [L], he sends his gifts with a hook attached;
a sprat to catch a mackerel.
suave mari magno [L], how pleasant (when) on the great sea...
(beginning of the verse Suave man magno turbantibus aequora ventis, E
terra magnum altenus spedare faborem!, How pleasant when, on the vast
deep, the winds have lashed the waters into billows, to witness—from
the land—the perils of another!): Lucretius.
suaviter et fortiter [L], gently and firmly.
suaviter in modo, fortiter in re [L], gentle in manner, resolute in deed.
subahdar [Hind & Pers], orig., governor of a province; viceroy; in an
Indian regiment, a native officer corresponding to a captain: India.
subaudi [L], supply (implied word or words) by means of subaudition;
read between the lines; understand: abbr. sub.
sub colore iuris [L], under color of law.