scarus

See also: Scarus

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin . See scar (“a kind of fish”).

Noun

scarus (plural scari)

1. A Mediterranean food fish (Scaridae spp.); parrotfish.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “scarus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• scaurs

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκάρος (skáros).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈska.rus/, [ˈs̠kärʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈska.rus/, [ˈskäːrus]

Noun

scarus m (genitive scarī); second declension

1. scar, a kind of fish

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scarus	scarī
Genitive	scarī	scarōrum
Dative	scarō	scarīs
Accusative	scarum	scarōs
Ablative	scarō	scarīs
Vocative	scare	scarī

Descendants

• Translingual: Scarus

References

• “scarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Old Irish

Verb

·scarus

1. first-person singular preterite conjunct of scaraid