stloppus

Latin

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Noun

stloppus m (genitive stloppī); second declension

1. slap (sound produced by striking upon an inflated cheek)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	stloppus	stloppī
Genitive	stloppī	stloppōrum
Dative	stloppō	stloppīs
Accusative	stloppum	stloppōs
Ablative	stloppō	stloppīs
Vocative	stloppe	stloppī

Descendants

(All descendants reflect regular /tl/ > /kl/; cf. veclus.)

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: schioppo (“gun”), scoppio (“explosion”)
  • Neapolitan: schiuoppo
  • Sicilian: scoppu
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: sclop
  • Ladin: schiop (“blowgun; gentian”)
  • Venetian: schiopo
  • →? Cimbrian: schuss (“gentian”) (calque)
  • → Mòcheno: sklopper (“gentian”)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: esclop
  • Occitan: esclop

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “stloppus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 12: Sk–š, page 278

Further reading

• “stloppus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scloppus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.