scapus

See also: Scapus

English

Etymology

Latin scapus (“shaft”)

Noun

scapus (plural scapi)

  1. (botany, zoology) A scape.
  2. (architecture) The shaft of a column.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for scapus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *skāpos,[1] from *skāp- < *skeh₂p- (“rod, shaft, staff, club”). Cognate with Latin Scipiō, scamnum, and cippus, Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to prop; to hurl, shoot”), Proto-Germanic *skaftaz (“shaft, pole”), and Proto-Slavic *kopьje (“spear, javelin”).

Noun

scāpus m (genitive scāpī); second declension

  1. stem, stalk (of a plant)
  2. shaft (or similar upright column)

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scāpus scāpī
Genitive scāpī scāpōrum
Dative scāpō scāpīs
Accusative scāpum scāpōs
Ablative scāpō scāpīs
Vocative scāpe scāpī

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  • scapus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • scapus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • scapus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  1. A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, Second Edition: Quiles, Language and Culture, Writing System and Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Texts and Dictionary
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