scopes

English

Noun

scopes

1. plural of scope

Verb

scopes

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of scope

Anagrams

• copses

Latin

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκῶπες (skôpes), plural of σκώψ (skṓps).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskoː.peːs], [ˈskoː.pɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskɔː.pes]
• Attested in prose, which does not reveal whether the Greek nominative plural ending /es/ was kept or replaced with the Latin nominative plural ending /eːs/.

Noun

scōpē̆s f pl

1. a kind of owl
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.138.1:

     nominantur ab Homero scopes, avium genus: neque harum satyricos motus, cum insidientur, plerisque memoratos facile conceperim mente, neque ipsae iam aves noscuntur. quamobrem de confessis disseruisse praestiterit.

     • 1938 translation by H. Rackham

       Homer mentions a kind of bird called the scops; many people speak of its comic dancing movements when it is watching for its prey, but I cannot easily grasp these in my mind, nor are the birds themselves now known. Consequently a discussion of admitted facts will be more profitable.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

scōpēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of scōpō

References

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

Old English

Noun

sċopes

1. genitive singular of sċop