scarifo
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Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek σκαρῖφάομαι (skarîpháomai, “to scratch an outline (on the body)”), from σκᾰ́ρῑφος (skárīphos, “etching, writing”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- (the source of Latin scribō).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /skaˈriː.foː/, [s̠käˈriːfoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /skaˈri.fo/, [skäˈriːfo]
Verb[edit]
scarīfō (present infinitive scarīfāre, perfect active scarīfāvī, supine scarīfātum); first conjugation
- (transitive) to scratch open, scarify
Conjugation[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Spanish: escarbar
References[edit]
- “scarifo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scarifo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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