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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly from Celtic, though the name does not correspond to any known tribes. Another possibility is a non-Indo-European substrate.
According to one theory, the original meaning was “cut off, outcast”, related to scoith (to cut off), from scoth (“point, edge (of weapon)”), from Proto-Celtic *skutā, from Proto-Indo-European *skewt- (“to cut”).
See Scoti.
Pronunciation
Noun
Scōtī
- inflection of Scōtus:
- nominative/vocative plural
- genitive singular
Proper noun
Scōtī m pl (genitive Scōtōrum); second declension
- the Irish; Gaelic-speaking people of Ireland and Scotland
Chronicon Scotorum- Chronicle of the Irish
- the Scots; the Scottish people of northern Britain
Declension
Second-declension noun, plural only.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “Scoti”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Scoti in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ C. Oman, A History of England before the Norman Conquest, London, 1910, page 157