scaber

See also: Scąber

Latin

Etymology

From scabō (“I scratch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈska.ber/, [ˈs̠käbɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈska.ber/, [ˈskäːber]

Adjective

scaber (feminine scabra, neuter scabrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. rough, scabrous
2. scabby, mangy, itchy
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.921–922:

     ‘Parce, precor, scabrāsque manūs ā messibus aufer
     nēve nocē cultīs: Posse nocēre sat est.’

     ‘‘Spare, I pray, and take [your] scabby hands off the harvests, and harm not [the fields] having been cultivated: Being able to harm is enough.’’
     (A prayer spoken by the Flamen Quirinalis during the Robigalia to propitiate the deity Robigo or Robigus and prevent agricultural diseases.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	scaber	scabra	scabrum		scabrī	scabrae	scabra
Genitive	scabrī	scabrae	scabrī		scabrōrum	scabrārum	scabrōrum
Dative	scabrō		scabrō		scabrīs
Accusative	scabrum	scabram	scabrum		scabrōs	scabrās	scabra
Ablative	scabrō	scabrā	scabrō		scabrīs
Vocative	scaber	scabra	scabrum		scabrī	scabrae	scabra

Descendants

• Catalan: escabre

References

• “scaber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scaber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scaber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.