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scruta

  1. third-person singular past historic of scruter

Anagrams

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Italian

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Verb

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scruta

  1. inflection of scrutare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

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Etymology

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Uncertain.[1] May be from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krew-t- or *(s)kroy-t-, extended from *(s)ker- (to cut). Probably cognate with Proto-Germanic *skraudaną (to cut up, shred) (whence Old High German scrōtan).[2] Compare also scrūpus.

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Noun

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scrūta n pl (genitive scrūtōrum); second declension (plural only)

  1. rubbish, broken trash

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative scrūta
Genitive scrūtōrum
Dative scrūtīs
Accusative scrūta
Ablative scrūtīs
Vocative scrūta

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References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “scrūta”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 548
  2. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*skrówdʰ-e-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 447

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French scruter, from Latin scrutari.

Verb

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a scruta (third-person singular present scrutează, past participle scrutat) 1st conj.

  1. to scrutinize

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