stloppus

Latin

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Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Manuscript spellings of the stem include stlop-, stolp-, stloph-, stopl-, stlopl-, stop-, strop-, stropp-, troph-, sclopp-, sclop-, schlopp-, scolpp-, scloppl-, scoph-.^[1] Since original /tl/ in Latin eventually passed regularly to /kl/ (as seen in vetulus > veclus), the manuscript forms and descendants are most simply explained by supposing the word originally started with /stl/, which evolved to /skl/ in all inherited Romance descendants, with an additional metathesis in Italian scoppio.

Noun

stloppus m (genitive stloppī); second declension^[2]

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

^ Jahn, Otto (1843) Satirarum liber; cum scholiis antiquis, editit Otto Jahn‎^[1], page 43
^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “stloppus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 12: Sk–š, page 278