scaber
Appearance
See also: Scąber
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From scabō (“I scratch”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈska.ber/, [ˈs̠käbɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈska.ber/, [ˈskäːber]
Adjective
[edit]scaber (feminine scabra, neuter scabrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- rough, scabrous
- scabby, mangy, itchy
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.921–922:
- ‘Parce, precor, scabrāsque manūs ā messibus aufer
nēve nocē cultīs: Posse nocēre sat est.’- ‘‘Spare, I pray, and take [your] scabby hands off the harvests, and harm not [the fields] having been cultivated: Being able to harm is enough.’’
(A prayer spoken by the Flamen Quirinalis during the Robigalia to propitiate the deity Robigo or Robigus and prevent agricultural diseases.)
- ‘‘Spare, I pray, and take [your] scabby hands off the harvests, and harm not [the fields] having been cultivated: Being able to harm is enough.’’
- ‘Parce, precor, scabrāsque manūs ā messibus aufer
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | scaber | scabra | scabrum | scabrī | scabrae | scabra | |
genitive | scabrī | scabrae | scabrī | scabrōrum | scabrārum | scabrōrum | |
dative | scabrō | scabrae | scabrō | scabrīs | |||
accusative | scabrum | scabram | scabrum | scabrōs | scabrās | scabra | |
ablative | scabrō | scabrā | scabrō | scabrīs | |||
vocative | scaber | scabra | scabrum | scabrī | scabrae | scabra |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: escabre
References
[edit]- “scaber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scaber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scaber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.