English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin scabellum.

Noun

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scabellum (plural scabella)

  1. (music, historical) A kind of percussion instrument played by the foot, used in dramatic performances.

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From scamnum (stool, ridge) +‎ -lum (diminutive suffix).

Noun

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scabellum n (genitive scabellī); second declension

  1. footstool
  2. a kind of percussion instrument played by the foot, used in dramatic performances.

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scabellum scabella
Genitive scabellī scabellōrum
Dative scabellō scabellīs
Accusative scabellum scabella
Ablative scabellō scabellīs
Vocative scabellum scabella

Descendants

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References

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  • scabellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • scabellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scabellum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • scabellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • scabellum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scabellum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin