scopulus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek σκόπελος (skópelos, “lookout place: hence peak, headland, promontory”), from σκοπέω (skopéō). Compare specula and specus, from the same root.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsko.pu.lus/, [ˈs̠kɔpʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsko.pu.lus/, [ˈskɔːpulus]
Noun[edit]
scopulus m (genitive scopulī); second declension
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | scopulus | scopulī |
Genitive | scopulī | scopulōrum |
Dative | scopulō | scopulīs |
Accusative | scopulum | scopulōs |
Ablative | scopulō | scopulīs |
Vocative | scopule | scopulī |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Italian: scoppio (“cliff”) (medieval hapax, Umbria)
- Vulgar Latin: *scoculum (see there for further descendants)
- → Italian: scopulo (learned)
References[edit]
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “scŏpŭlus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 11: S–Si, page 325
Further reading[edit]
- “scopulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scopulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scopulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- scopulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the ship strikes on the rocks: navis ad scopulos alliditur (B. C. 3. 27)
- the ship strikes on the rocks: navis ad scopulos alliditur (B. C. 3. 27)
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