scamnum

Latin

Etymology

For *scabnum, from Proto-Italic *skaβnom, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-no-m, from *skabʰ- (“to hold up, support”). Cognate with Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá, “prop, support, pillar”).

Noun

scamnum n (genitive scamnī); second declension

1. stool, step, bench
2. ridge (of earth formed by ploughing)
3. breadth of a field

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scamnum	scamna
Genitive	scamnī	scamnōrum
Dative	scamnō	scamnīs
Accusative	scamnum	scamna
Ablative	scamnō	scamnīs
Vocative	scamnum	scamna

Derived terms

• scabellum
• sublātiō super scamnum

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: scamnu
  • Istro-Romanian: scånd
  • Megleno-Romanian: scand
  • Romanian: scaun
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: scanno
  • Sicilian: scannu
• Northern Italian:
  • Friulian: scagn
  • Lombard: scagna, scagnœl
  • Venetan: scagno, scagn
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: eschame, escaigne
  • Old Occitan:
    • Catalan: escon, escó
    • Occitan: escanh
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: escano
    • Galician: escano
    • Portuguese: escano
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: escaño
      • → Portuguese: escanho

Borrowings:

• → Albanian: shkëmb
• → Koine Greek: σκάμνον (skámnon)
  • ⇒ Byzantine Greek: σκαμνίον (skamníon, dim.) (see there for further descendants)
• → Breton: skaoñ

References

• “scamnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scamnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scamnum 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)
• scamnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scamnum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “scamnum”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press