scorpio
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See also: Scorpio
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek σκορπίος (skorpíos).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskor.pi.oː/, [ˈs̠kɔrpioː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈskor.pi.o/, [ˈskɔrpio]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun[edit]
scorpiō m (genitive scorpiōnis); third declension
- a scorpion
- a kind of prickly sea fish, possibly the scorpionfish or sculpin
- a kind of prickly plant
- (military) scorpion, a small catapult
- Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 25:
- scorpione ab latere dextro traiectus exanimatusque concidit
- He was pierced and killed on the right side by a scorpion and fell
- scorpione ab latere dextro traiectus exanimatusque concidit
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | scorpiō | scorpiōnēs |
Genitive | scorpiōnis | scorpiōnum |
Dative | scorpiōnī | scorpiōnibus |
Accusative | scorpiōnem | scorpiōnēs |
Ablative | scorpiōne | scorpiōnibus |
Vocative | scorpiō | scorpiōnēs |
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- →? Albanian: shkrap
- Catalan: escorpí
- Old French: scorpion
- French: scorpion
- → Middle Dutch: scorpioen
- Dutch: schorpioen
- → English: scorpion
- → Welsh: sgorpion
- → German: Skorpion
- → Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍀𐌾𐍉 (skaurpjō)
- → Old Irish: scoirp
- Irish: scairp
- Italian: scorpione
- >? Italian: sgorbio
- → Middle Low German: schorpie
- Portuguese: escorpião
- Romanian: scorpion
- Romansch: scorpiun
- → Russian: скорпио́н m (skorpión)
- Sicilian: scurpiuni
- Spanish: escorpión
References[edit]
- “scorpio”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “scorpio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scorpio 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)
- scorpio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- “scorpio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “scorpio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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