Scoti
See also: scoti
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. Possibly from Celtic, though the name doesn't correspond to any known tribes. Another possibility is a non-Indo-European substrate.
According to one theory, the original meaning was "cut off, outcast", related to scoith (to cut off), from scoth (“point, edge (of weapon)”), from Proto-Celtic *skutā, from Proto-Indo-European *skewt- (“to cut”).[1]
See Scoti.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskoː.tiː/, [ˈs̠koːt̪iː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsko.ti/, [ˈskɔːt̪i]
Noun edit
Scōtī
Proper noun edit
Scōtī m pl (genitive Scōtōrum); second declension
- the Irish; Gaelic-speaking people of Ireland and Scotland
- Chronicon Scotorum
- Chronicle of the Irish
- the Scots; the Scottish people of northern Britain
Declension edit
Second-declension noun, plural only.
Case | Plural |
---|---|
Nominative | Scōtī |
Genitive | Scōtōrum |
Dative | Scōtīs |
Accusative | Scōtōs |
Ablative | Scōtīs |
Vocative | Scōtī |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: Scots
References edit
- “Scoti”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Scoti in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ C. Oman, A History of England before the Norman Conquest, London, 1910, p. 157