zopissa

English

Noun

zopissa (uncountable)

1. (medicine, obsolete) An old medicinal mixture of pitch and tar scraped from the sides of ships.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /zoːˈpis.sa/, [z̪oːˈpɪs̠ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡zoˈpis.sa/, [d̪͡z̪oˈpisːä]

Noun

zōpissa f (genitive zōpissae); first declension

1. Tar or pitch that is mixed with wax, which was scraped off from ships.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	zōpissa	zōpissae
genitive	zōpissae	zōpissārum
dative	zōpissae	zōpissīs
accusative	zōpissam	zōpissās
ablative	zōpissā	zōpissīs
vocative	zōpissa	zōpissae

References

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