scoparius

English

Etymology

From Latin scōpārius.

Noun

scoparius (uncountable)

1. The dried tops of the plant Cytisus scoparius, formerly used in medicine.
   • 1895, Henry Martyn Bracken, Outlines of Materia Medica and Pharmacology, page 255:

     Scoparin […] is used — chiefly as a constituent of scoparius — for its diuretic action in certain forms of dropsy.

Latin

Etymology

From scōpae (“broom”) +‎ -ārius.

Noun

scōpārius m (genitive scōpāriī or scōpārī); second declension

1. sweeper

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	scōpārius	scōpāriī
genitive	scōpāriī scōpārī1	scōpāriōrum
dative	scōpāriō	scōpāriīs
accusative	scōpārium	scōpāriōs
ablative	scōpāriō	scōpāriīs
vocative	scōpārie	scōpāriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• scōpae

Descendants

• Translingual: used in several taxonomic names either as the genus Scoparia, or as an epithet, e.g. Cucullia scopariae.

Adjective

scōpārius (feminine scōpāria, neuter scōpārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (New Latin) Used as a specific epithet; of a broom.

Usage notes

• Used almost exclusively as a taxonomic epithet and thus not normally in inflected forms other than the nominative singular.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	scōpārius	scōpāria	scōpārium		scōpāriī	scōpāriae	scōpāria
genitive	scōpāriī	scōpāriae	scōpāriī		scōpāriōrum	scōpāriārum	scōpāriōrum
dative	scōpāriō	scōpāriae	scōpāriō		scōpāriīs
accusative	scōpārium	scōpāriam	scōpārium		scōpāriōs	scōpāriās	scōpāria
ablative	scōpāriō	scōpāriā	scōpāriō		scōpāriīs
vocative	scōpārie	scōpāria	scōpārium		scōpāriī	scōpāriae	scōpāria

References

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