scabellum

Borrowed from Latin scabellum.

scabellum (plural scabella)

1. (music, historical) A kind of percussion instrument played by the foot, used in dramatic performances.

• scabillum

Diminutive form of scamnum (“stool, ridge”).

scabellum n (genitive scabellī); second declension

1. footstool
2. a kind of percussion instrument played by the foot, used in dramatic performances.

Second declension.

• Italian: sgabello
• Old French: eschevel
  • French: écheveau
• Old Occitan: escabel
  • Old Catalan: escabell, escambell
    • Catalan: escambell
    • → Spanish: escabel
  • Occitan: escabèl
• Old Portuguese:
  • Portuguese: escabelo
• Romanian: scăunel (uncertain)
• Sicilian: sgabeddu
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: scamellum
  • → Germanic: *skamulaz
    • Old English: sċamol, sċamul, sċamel, sċeamol, sċeamul, sċeamel
      • English: shambles
    • Old High German: scamil
      • Middle High German: schamel
        • German: Schemel
        • → Hungarian: zsamóly
    • Old Norse: skemill
      • Danish: skammel
      • Icelandic: skemill
• → Alemannic German: Gstabëlle
• → English: scabellum
• → French: escabeau
  • → Dutch: schabouw
• → Norman: scabelle

• scabellum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scabellum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scabellum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• scabellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• scabellum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scabellum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin