stloppus

Latin

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Manuscript spellings of the stem include stlop-, stolp-, stloph-, stopl-, stlopl-, stop-, strop-, stropp-, troph-, sclopp-, sclop-, schlopp-, scolpp-, scloppl-, scoph-. Since original /tl/ in Latin eventually passed regularly to /kl/ (as seen in vetulus > veclus), the manuscript forms and descendants are most simply explained by supposing the word originally started with /stl/, which evolved to /skl/ in all inherited Romance descendants, with an additional metathesis in Italian scoppio.

Noun

stloppus m (genitive stloppī); second declension

1. slap (sound produced by striking upon an inflated cheek)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	stloppus	stloppī
genitive	stloppī	stloppōrum
dative	stloppō	stloppīs
accusative	stloppum	stloppōs
ablative	stloppō	stloppīs
vocative	stloppe	stloppī

Descendants

(All descendants reflect regular /tl/ > /kl/; cf. veclus.)

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: schioppo (“gun”), scoppio (“explosion”)
  • Neapolitan: schiuoppo
  • Sicilian: scoppu
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: sclop
  • Ladin: schiop (“blowgun; gentian”)
  • Venetan: schiopo
  • →? Cimbrian: schuss (“gentian”) (calque)
  • → Mòcheno: sklopper (“gentian”)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: esclop
  • Occitan: esclop

Further reading

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