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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin scabellum.
Noun
scabellum (plural scabella)
- (music, historical) A kind of percussion instrument played by the foot, used in dramatic performances.
Latin
Etymology
From scamnum (“stool, ridge”) + -lum (diminutive suffix).
Noun
scabellum n (genitive scabellī); second declension
- footstool
- a kind of percussion instrument played by the foot, used in dramatic performances.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “scabellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scabellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scabellum 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)
- scabellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “scabellum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “scabellum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin