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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin scōria, from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría), from σκῶρ (skôr, “dung”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]scoria (countable and uncountable, plural scorias or scoriae)
- The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore. [from 14th c.]
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- The like stuff is in Anacharsis: hot metal; full of scoriae, which should and could have been smelted out, but which will not.
- (geology) Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater. [from 18th c.]
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 10:
- An excellent guidebook by Drs Kilburn and McGuire of University College London reveals that these unpromising pieces of debris are scoria and lithic fragments of the March 1944 eruption.
Derived terms
[edit]Derived terms
Translations
[edit]slag or dross — see slag
volcanic rock — see slag
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin scōria, from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]scoria f (plural scorie)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ scoria in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría, “slag”), from σκῶρ (skôr, “dung”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈskoː.ri.a/, [ˈs̠koːriä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsko.ri.a/, [ˈskɔːriä]
Noun
[edit]scōria f (genitive scōriae); first declension
- slag, dross, scoria
- 2nd century CE, Lex Metalli Vipascensis, in CLI II, 5181, II, 53–55
- Conductori socio actorive eius pignus capere liceto et quod eius scauriae purgatum [lacuna adiectivi unius] expeditum fractum cretum lavatumque erit quive lapides lausiae expeditae in lapicaedinis erunt, commissa ei sunto, nisi quidquid debitum erit conductori socio actorive eius solutum erit.
- The lessee, shareholder, or manager may seize as a pledge what will be cleansed, [lacuna of one adjective], brought forth, broken, shed, and washed of its slags or slabs which will be brought forth in the quarry, they will forfeit to him, if not all will be redeemed that will be owed to the lessee, shareholder, or manager.
- 2nd century CE, Lex Metalli Vipascensis, in CLI II, 5181, II, 53–55
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | scōria | scōriae |
Genitive | scōriae | scōriārum |
Dative | scōriae | scōriīs |
Accusative | scōriam | scōriās |
Ablative | scōriā | scōriīs |
Vocative | scōria | scōriae |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “scoria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- scoria 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)
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