- stringent
[stringent 词源字典]
- stringent: see strain
[stringent etymology, stringent origin, 英语词源] - stringent (adj.)
- c. 1600, "astringent," especially with reference to taste, from Latin stringentem (nominative stringens), present participle of stringere (2) "to compress, contract, bind or draw tight" (see strain (v.)). Of regulations, procedures, etc., 1846.