scopa

See also: SCOPA

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin scōpa (“broom”) (Classical Latin scōpae (“twigs, broom”)). Compare Spanish escoba (“broom”).

Large scopae on the hind legs of Dasypoda sp. bee

Noun

scopa (plural scopae)

1. Any of various clusters of hair of non-parasitic bees that serve to carry pollen. In parasitic Hymenoptera it refers to a local patch of hairs, regardless of function.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian scopa and Neapolitan scopa.

Noun

scopa (uncountable)

1. (card games) A Neapolitan card game.

Translations

Neapolitan card game

• Portuguese: escopa f

Anagrams

• pacos, copsa, capos, OPACs, posca, Pasco

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsko.pa/

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• Rhymes: -opa
• Hyphenation: scó‧pa

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin scōpa.

Noun

scopa f (plural scope, diminutive scopìna or scopìno m or scopétta, augmentative (card game) scopóne, pejorative scopàccia)

1. broom, besom
2. (card games) a Neapolitan card game
3. (botany) briar, tree heath

Descendants

• → Tunisian Arabic: شكُبَّة (škobbə) (both broom and the game)

Derived terms

• scopaio
• scopare
• scopatura
• scopeto
• scopista

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

scopa

1. inflection of scopare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• caspo, pasco, posca, scapo

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *skōpā, from *skeh₂p- (“to prop”). Cognate with Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to prop up”), Latvian šķēps (“spear, javelin”), English shaft. Compare also Scīpiō, scāpus, cippus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskoː.pa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskɔː.pa]

Noun

scōpa f (genitive scōpae); first declension

1. branch of a plant
2. (Classical Latin, in the plural) broom, besom

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	scōpa	scōpae
genitive	scōpae	scōpārum
dative	scōpae	scōpīs
accusative	scōpam	scōpās
ablative	scōpā	scōpīs
vocative	scōpa	scōpae

Derived terms

• scōpīlia
• scōpō
• scōpula
• *scōpārium (“barn”) (British Latin)
  • Proto-Brythonic: *skʉbọr

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: scopa
  • Sicilian: scupa
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: scova
  • Friulian: scove
  • Lombard: scoa
  • Piedmontese:

    Oriental: scoa, scova

  • Romansh: scua
  • Venetan: scoa, scova
    • →⇒ Italian: scovolo
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: ècova
  • Old French: escove, escobe, escouve
    • ⇒ French: écouvillon
      • → Catalan: escovilló
      • → English: ecouvillon
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: escoba
  • Catalan: escombra (influenced by escombrar)
  • Occitan: escoba
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: escoba
  • Galician: escoba
  • Portuguese: escova
  • Spanish: escoba
    • → Hiligaynon: eskoba
    • → Tagalog: eskoba
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: scova, iscòba, iscopa
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Albanian: shqopë
  • → Middle Irish: scúap
    • Irish: scuab
    • Manx: skeab
    • Scottish Gaelic: sguab
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *ɨskʉb
    • Cornish: skub
    • Middle Welsh: ysgub
      • Welsh: ysgub
  • → Byzantine Greek: σκούπα (skoúpa)

Verb

scōpā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of scōpō

Further reading

• Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology Portal: scopa
• “scopa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "scopa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “scopa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old English

Noun

sċopa

1. genitive plural of sċop