scapula

From Late Latin scapula (“shoulder”).

scapula (plural scapulas or scapulae)

1. (anatomy) Either of the two large, flat, bones forming the back of the shoulder.

• shoulder blade

• scapular
• scapulary

Late Latin scapula "shoulder" from Classical Latin scapulae (“shoulders”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈska.pu.la/, [ˈska.pʊ.ɫa]

scapula f (genitive scapulae); first declension

1. (anatomy) A shoulder

First declension.

• scapulāre
• scapulāris
• scapulārium
• scapulārus

• English: scapula, scapular, scapulary
• Italian: scapola, scapolare
• Portuguese: escápula
• Romanian: scapulă
• Spanish: escápula, escapular

• scapula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scapula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• scapula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• scapula in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers