scrutinium

Latin

Etymology

From scrūtor.

Noun

scrūtinium n (genitive scrūtiniī or scrūtinī); second declension

1. search, inquiry, investigation, scrutiny

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scrūtinium	scrūtinia
Genitive	scrūtiniī scrūtinī1	scrūtiniōrum
Dative	scrūtiniō	scrūtiniīs
Accusative	scrūtinium	scrūtinia
Ablative	scrūtiniō	scrūtiniīs
Vocative	scrūtinium	scrūtinia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• → Catalan: escrutini
• → English: scrutiny
• → French: scrutin
• → Italian: scrutinio
• → Portuguese: escrutínio
• → Romanian: scrutin
• → Spanish: escrutinio
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *scrutiniare
  • Galician: escudriñar
  • Spanish: escudriñar
  • Catalan: escodrinyar

References

• “scrutinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scrutinium 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)
• scrutinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• scrutinium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016