light metallic element, 1808, coined in Modern Latin by English chemist Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) from Strontian, name of a parish in Argyllshire, Scotland, the site of lead mines where strontium was first found, in 1787.
strong
strong-arm
strong-box
stronghold
strongly
strontium
strop
strophe
strophic
stroppy
strove