scaphium

See also: Scaphium

English

Etymology

Latin scaphium

Noun

scaphium (plural scaphia)

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

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Latin

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 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