scarabaeus
English
Etymology
Noun
scarabaeus (plural scarabaei or scarabaeuses)
- A scarab.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 scarabaeus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
Alternative forms
- scarabēus
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “beetle, crayfish”), a foreign word, probably Ancient Macedonian (the suffix -bos is not Greek).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ska.raˈbae̯.us/, [ska.raˈbae̯.ʊs]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /skaˈra.bɛ.us/, [skaˈraː.bɛ.us]
Noun
scarabaeus m (genitive scarabaeī); second declension
- A scarab, black dung beetle, revered in Ancient Egypt.
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | scarabaeus | scarabaeī |
| genitive | scarabaeī | scarabaeōrum |
| dative | scarabaeō | scarabaeīs |
| accusative | scarabaeum | scarabaeōs |
| ablative | scarabaeō | scarabaeīs |
| vocative | scarabaee | scarabaeī |
Descendants
- Aragonese: escarabaxo
- Asturian: escarabayu
- English: scarab
- Galician: escaravello
- Italian: scarabeo, scarafaggio
- Middle French: scarabée
- French: scarabée
- Polishː skarabeusz
- Portuguese: escaravelho
- Russian: скарабей (skarabej)
- Spanish: escarabajo
- Old French: escharbot
References
- scarabaeus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- scarabaeus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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