scoria

See also: Scoria

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scōria, from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría), from σκῶρ (skôr, “dung”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɔːɹɪə/
• Rhymes: -ɔːriə

Noun

scoria (countable and uncountable, plural scorias or scoriae)

1. 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

     The like stuff is in Anacharsis: hot metal; full of scoriae, which should and could have been smelted out, but which will not.

2. (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 2011, p. 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

Derived terms

• scoriac
• scoriaceous
• scoriated
• scoriation
• scorification

• scorified
• scorifier
• scoriform
• scorify

Translations

slag or dross — see slag

volcanic rock — see slag

Anagrams

• Corias, cariso

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin scōria, from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɔ.rja/

Noun

scoria f (plural scorie)

1. slag
2. waste
3. scoria, tailings

Derived terms

• scorie radioattive

Anagrams

• corsia, rosica, scorai

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Latin

Alternative forms

• scauria

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría, “slag”), from σκῶρ (skôr, “dung”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskoː.ri.a/, [ˈs̠koːriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.ri.a/, [ˈskɔːriä]

Noun

scōria f (genitive scōriae); first declension

1. slag, dross, scoria
   • 2^nd 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.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scōria	scōriae
Genitive	scōriae	scōriārum
Dative	scōriae	scōriīs
Accusative	scōriam	scōriās
Ablative	scōriā	scōriīs
Vocative	scōria	scōriae

Descendants

• Albanian: zgjyrë
• Catalan: escòria
• English: scoria
• French: scorie
• Galician: escoura

• Italian: scoria
• Portuguese: escória
• Romanian: scoare, scorie
• Spanish: escoria

References

• “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)