stribligo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

striblīgo and stribĭlīgo, ĭnis, f. [perh. kindr. with στρεβλός, twisted, awry],

an impropriety in language , a solecism (ante- and post-class.): soloecismus Latino vocabulo a Sinnio Capitone ejusdemque aetatis aliis imparilitas appellatus, vetustioribus Latinis stribligo dicebatur, a versurā videlicet et pravitate tortuosae orationis, tamquam strobiligo quaedam, Gell. 5, 20, 1; Arn. 1, 36.