scapus

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

scapus (plural scapi)

  1. (botany, zoology) A scape.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 *skapos,[1] from *skap-. Cognate with Latin Scipiō, scamnum, cippus, Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō).

Noun

scapus m (genitive scapī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative scapus scapī
genitive scapī scapōrum
dative scapō scapīs
accusative scapum scapōs
ablative scapō scapīs
vocative scape scapī

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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