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Latin
Etymology
From scabō (“I scratch”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
scaber (feminine scabra, neuter scabrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- rough, scabrous
- scabby, mangy, itchy
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 4.921–922:
- ‘Parce, precor, scabrāsque manūs ā messibus aufer
nēve nocē cultīs: Posse nocēre sat est.’- ‘‘Spare, I pray, and take scabby hands off the harvests, and harm not having been cultivated: Being able to harm is enough.’’
(A prayer spoken by the Flamen Quirinalis during the Robigalia to propitiate the deity Robigo or Robigus and prevent agricultural diseases.)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Descendants
References
- “scaber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scaber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scaber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.