scobina

English

Noun

scobina (plural scobinae)

1. (botany) The pedicle of the spikelets of grasses.

Anagrams

• Bosniac, Cobains, Cobians, bioscan, bonacis

Latin

Etymology

From scobis (“sawdust”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /skoˈbiː.na/, [s̠kɔˈbiːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /skoˈbi.na/, [skoˈbiːnä]

Noun

scobīna f (genitive scobīnae); first declension

1. a rasp

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scobīna	scobīnae
Genitive	scobīnae	scobīnārum
Dative	scobīnae	scobīnīs
Accusative	scobīnam	scobīnās
Ablative	scobīnā	scobīnīs
Vocative	scobīna	scobīnae

Related terms

• scobis

Descendants

• Spanish: escofina
  • → Italian: scuffina

References

• “scobina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scobina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scobina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers