scabellum
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin scabellum.
Noun edit
scabellum (plural scabella)
- (music, historical) A kind of percussion instrument played by the foot, used in dramatic performances.
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From scamnum (“stool, ridge”) + -lum (diminutive suffix).
Noun edit
scabellum n (genitive scabellī); second declension
- footstool
- a kind of percussion instrument played by the foot, used in dramatic performances.
Declension edit
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 edit
- Italian: sgabello
- Old French: eschevel
- French: écheveau
- Old Occitan: escabel
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Portuguese: escabelo
- Piedmontese: scabel
- Romanian: scăunel (uncertain)
- Sicilian: sgabeḍḍu
- → Alemannic German: Gstabëlle
- → English: scabellum
- → French: escabeau
- → Dutch: schabouw
- → Norman: scabelle
- → Proto-West Germanic: *skamil (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- “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