scopa

See also: SCOPA

English

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin scopa (“broom”). Compare Spanish escoba (“broom”)

Noun

scopa (plural scopae)

1. Any of various body parts 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

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian

Noun

scopa (uncountable)

1. (card games) A Neapolitan card game.

Translations

a Neapolitan card game

• Portuguese: escopa f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Anagrams

• Pasco, capos, pacos, posca

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin scōpa.

Noun

scopa f (plural scope)

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

Related terms

• scopare
• scopatura
• scopeto

Verb

scopa

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

Anagrams

• pasco, scapo

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *skap-. Cognate with Latin Scipiō, scapus, scamnum, cippus, Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskoː.pa/, [ˈs̠koːpä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.pa/, [ˈskɔːpä]

Noun

scōpa f (genitive scōpae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scōpa	scōpae
Genitive	scōpae	scōpārum
Dative	scōpae	scōpīs
Accusative	scōpam	scōpās
Ablative	scōpā	scōpīs
Vocative	scōpa	scōpae

Derived terms

• scōpō
• scopula

Descendants

• Albanian: shqopë
• Asturian: escoba
• Catalan: escombra
• Friulian: scove
• Italian: scopa
• Occitan: escoba
• Old French: escove, escobe, escouve

• Old Irish: scúap
• Portuguese: escova
• Romansch: scua
• Sardinian: scova, iscòba, iscopa
• Sicilian: scupa
• Spanish: escoba
• Venetian: scoa, scova
• Welsh: ysgub

Verb

(deprecated template usage) scōpā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of scōpō

References

• “scopa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scopa 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)
• scopa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.