scopa
See also: SCOPA
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Vulgar Latin scōpa (“broom”) (Latin scōpae (“twigs, broom”) ). Compare Spanish escoba (“broom”).
Noun edit
scopa (plural scopae)
- Any of various clusters of hair of non-parasitic bees that serve to carry pollen. In parasitic Hymenoptera it refers to a local patch of hairs, regardless of function.
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Italian.
Noun edit
scopa (uncountable)
Translations edit
Neapolitan card game
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Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
scopa f (plural scope, diminutive scopìna or scopìno m or scopétta, augmentative (card game) scopóne, pejorative scopàccia)
- broom, besom
- (card games) a Neapolitan card game
- (botany) briar, tree heat
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
scopa
- inflection of scopare:
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *skōpās, from *skeh₂p- (“to prop”). Cognate with Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to prop up”), Latvian šķēps (“spear, javelin”), English shaft.[1] Compare also Scīpiō, scāpus, cippus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskoː.pa/, [ˈs̠koːpä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsko.pa/, [ˈskɔːpä]
Noun edit
scōpa f (genitive scōpae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | scōpa | scōpae |
Genitive | scōpae | scōpārum |
Dative | scōpae | scōpīs |
Accusative | scōpam | scōpās |
Ablative | scōpā | scōpīs |
Vocative | scōpa | scōpae |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Ancient borrowings:
Verb edit
scōpā
References edit
- Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology Portal: scopa
- “scopa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- scopa 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)
- scopa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 546