scabellum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scabellum.

Noun

scabellum (plural scabella)

1. (music, historical) A kind of percussion instrument played by the foot, used in dramatic performances.

Latin

Alternative forms

• scabillum

Etymology

From scamnum (“stool, ridge”) +‎ -lum (diminutive suffix).

Noun

scabellum n (genitive scabellī); second declension

1. footstool
2. a kind of percussion instrument played by the foot, used in dramatic performances.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scabellum	scabella
Genitive	scabellī	scabellōrum
Dative	scabellō	scabellīs
Accusative	scabellum	scabella
Ablative	scabellō	scabellīs
Vocative	scabellum	scabella

Descendants

• Italian: sgabello
• Old French: eschevel
  • French: écheveau
• Old Occitan: escabel
  • Old Catalan: escabell, escambell
    • Catalan: escambell
    • → Spanish: escabel
  • Occitan: escabèl
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Portuguese: escabelo
• Piedmontese: scabel
• Romanian: scăunel (uncertain)
• Sicilian: sgabeḍḍu
• → Alemannic German: Gstabëlle
• → English: scabellum
• → French: escabeau
  • → Dutch: schabouw
• → Norman: scabelle
• → Proto-West Germanic: *skamil (see there for further descendants)

References

• “scabellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scabellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scabellum 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)
• scabellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scabellum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “scabellum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin