scapha

See also: Scapha

English

Etymology

From Latin scapha (“light boat; skiff”).

Noun

scapha (plural scaphae)

1. (anatomy) The scaphoid fossa of the helix of the ear.

Anagrams

• Chapas, Pascha, pachas

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκάφη (skáphē, “light boat, skiff”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈska.pʰa/, [ˈs̠käpʰä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈska.fa/, [ˈskäːfä]

Noun

scapha f (genitive scaphae); first declension

1. a light boat; skiff

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	scapha	scaphae
genitive	scaphae	scaphārum
dative	scaphae	scaphīs
accusative	scapham	scaphās
ablative	scaphā	scaphīs
vocative	scapha	scaphae

Synonyms

• (skiff): cymba, lēnunculus, linter

Derived terms

• scaphula

Related terms

• scaphē
• scaphium

Descendants

• Italian: scafa

References

• “scapha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scapha”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scapha 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)
• scapha in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scapha”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers