scrapta

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (to cut). See also Latin corium, scortum, Proto-Germanic *skeraną (whence English shear), Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, I cut off).

Noun

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scrapta f (genitive scraptae); first declension

  1. an epithet of a prostitute

Declension

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References

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