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English
Etymology
From Latin scapha (“light boat; skiff”).
Noun
scapha (plural scaphae)
- (anatomy) The scaphoid fossa of the helix of the ear.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σκάφη (skáphē, “light boat, skiff”).
Pronunciation
Noun
scapha f (genitive scaphae); first declension
- a light boat; skiff
Declension
First-declension noun.
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References
- “scapha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scapha”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scapha 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)
- scapha in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “scapha”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers