scapus

See also: Scapus

English

Etymology

Latin scapus (“shaft”)

Noun

scapus (plural scapi)

1. (botany, zoology) A scape.
2. (architecture) The shaft of a column.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scapus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• scaups

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *skāpos, from *skāp- < *skeh₂p- (“rod, shaft, staff, club”). Cognate with Latin Scipiō, scamnum, and cippus, Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to prop; to hurl, shoot”), Proto-Germanic *skaftaz (“shaft, pole”), and Proto-Slavic *kopьje (“spear, javelin”).

Noun

scāpus m (genitive scāpī); second declension

1. stem, stalk (of a plant)
2. shaft (or similar upright column)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scāpus	scāpī
Genitive	scāpī	scāpōrum
Dative	scāpō	scāpīs
Accusative	scāpum	scāpōs
Ablative	scāpō	scāpīs
Vocative	scāpe	scāpī

Derived terms

• scōpa

Descendants

• English: scape
• Portuguese: escapo

References

• “scapus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scapus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scapus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers