scolopendra

See also: Scolopendra

English

Etymology

From Latin scolopendra, from Ancient Greek σκολόπενδρα (skolópendra).

Noun

scolopendra (plural scolopendras)

1. (obsolete) A mythical sea-creature, reputed to be able to disgorge its bowels to dislodge any fishing-hook.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Spring-headed Hydraes, and sea-shouldring Whales, / Great whirlpooles, which all fishes make to flee, / Bright Scolopendraes, arm'd with siluer scales, / Mighty Monoceroses, with immeasured tayles.

2. A centipede of the genus Scolopendra.
   • 1845 November, The Eclectic Magazine, volume 6, page 352:

     This led the conversation to the insects of the Crimea and Ukraine, of which I had made a considerable collection, and the Emperor inquired of me if there were scorpions, scolopendras and tarantulas in the Crimea.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin scolopendra, from Ancient Greek σκολόπενδρα (skolópendra).

Noun

scolopendra f (plural scolopendre)

1. scolopendra, a kind of centipede

Anagrams

• screpolando, sporcandole, sprecandolo

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκολόπενδρα (skolópendra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sko.loˈpen.dra/, [s̠kɔɫ̪ɔˈpɛn̪d̪rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sko.loˈpen.dra/, [skoloˈpɛn̪d̪rä]

Noun

scolopendra f (genitive scolopendrae); first declension

1. A kind of centipede.
2. A kind of sea fish.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scolopendra	scolopendrae
Genitive	scolopendrae	scolopendrārum
Dative	scolopendrae	scolopendrīs
Accusative	scolopendram	scolopendrās
Ablative	scolopendrā	scolopendrīs
Vocative	scolopendra	scolopendrae

Descendants

• French: scolopendre
• Italian: scolopendra
• Romanian: scolopendră
• Spanish: escolopendra
• Translingual: Scolopendra

References

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