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Latin
Etymology
From scabō (“scratch, scrape”).
Noun
scobis f (genitive scobis); third declension
- sawdust, wood chips
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Synonyms
- (sawdust): lānūgō (transferred sense)
References
- “scobis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scobis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scobis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “scobis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “scobis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin