scaphium

See also: Scaphium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scaphium, from Ancient Greek σκάφιον (skáphion).

Noun

scaphium (plural scaphia)

1. (botany) The carina or keel of papilionaceous flowers.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκάφιον (skáphion), deminutive of σκάφη (skáphē, “bowl; skiff”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈska.pʰi.um/, [ˈs̠käpʰiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈska.fi.um/, [ˈskäːfium]

Noun

scaphium n (genitive scaphiī or scaphī); second declension

1. pot, bowl etc in the form of a boat

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scaphium	scaphia
Genitive	scaphiī scaphī1	scaphiōrum
Dative	scaphiō	scaphiīs
Accusative	scaphium	scaphia
Ablative	scaphiō	scaphiīs
Vocative	scaphium	scaphia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Translingual: Scaphium

References

• “scaphium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scaphium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scaphium in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• scaphium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scaphium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin