scorpio
See also: Scorpio
Latin
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek σκορπίος (skorpíos).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈskor.pi.oː/, [ˈs̠kɔrpioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈskor.pi.o/, [ˈskɔrpio]
Noun
[edit]scorpiō m (genitive scorpiōnis); third declension
- a scorpion
- a kind of prickly sea fish, possibly the scorpionfish or sculpin
- a kind of prickly plant
- (military) scorpion, a small catapult
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.25:
- scorpione ab latere dextro traiectus exanimatusque concidit
- He was pierced and killed on the right side by a scorpion and fell
- scorpione ab latere dextro traiectus exanimatusque concidit
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | scorpiō | scorpiōnēs |
| genitive | scorpiōnis | scorpiōnum |
| dative | scorpiōnī | scorpiōnibus |
| accusative | scorpiōnem | scorpiōnēs |
| ablative | scorpiōne | scorpiōnibus |
| vocative | scorpiō | scorpiōnēs |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- →? Albanian: shkrap
- Catalan: escorpí
- Old French: scorpion
- French: scorpion
- → Middle Dutch: scorpioen
- Dutch: schorpioen
- → English: scorpion
- → Welsh: sgorpion
- → German: Skorpion
- → Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍀𐌾𐍉 (skaurpjō)
- → Middle Irish: scoirp
- Irish: scairp
- Italian: scorpione
- >? Italian: sgorbio
- → Middle Low German: schorpie
- → Norwegian Bokmål: skorpion
- Portuguese: escorpião
- Romanian: scorpion
- Romansch: scorpiun
- → Russian: скорпио́н m (skorpión)
- Sicilian: scurpiuni
- Spanish: escorpión
References
[edit]- “scorpio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scorpio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scorpio 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)
- scorpio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “scorpio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “scorpio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin