scoparius
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English
Etymology
Noun
scoparius (uncountable)
- The dried tops of the plant Cytisus scoparius, formerly used in medicine.
- 1895, Henry Martyn Bracken, Outlines of Materia Medica and Pharmacology, page 255:
- Scoparin […] is used — chiefly as a constituent of scoparius — for its diuretic action in certain forms of dropsy.
Latin
Etymology
From scōpae (“broom”) + -ārius.
Noun
scōpārius m (genitive scōpāriī or scōpārī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | scōpārius | scōpāriī |
| Genitive | scōpāriī scōpārī1 |
scōpāriōrum |
| Dative | scōpāriō | scōpāriīs |
| Accusative | scōpārium | scōpāriōs |
| Ablative | scōpāriō | scōpāriīs |
| Vocative | scōpārie | scōpāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
Descendants
- Translingual: used in several taxonomic names either as the genus Scoparia, or as an epithet, e.g. Cucullia scopariae.
Adjective
scōpārius (feminine scōpāria, neuter scōpārium); first/second-declension adjective
- (New Latin) Used as a specific epithet; of a broom.
Usage notes
- Used almost exclusively as a taxonomic epithet and thus not normally in inflected forms other than the nominative singular.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | scōpārius | scōpāria | scōpārium | scōpāriī | scōpāriae | scōpāria | |
| Genitive | scōpāriī | scōpāriae | scōpāriī | scōpāriōrum | scōpāriārum | scōpāriōrum | |
| Dative | scōpāriō | scōpāriō | scōpāriīs | ||||
| Accusative | scōpārium | scōpāriam | scōpārium | scōpāriōs | scōpāriās | scōpāria | |
| Ablative | scōpāriō | scōpāriā | scōpāriō | scōpāriīs | |||
| Vocative | scōpārie | scōpāria | scōpārium | scōpāriī | scōpāriae | scōpāria | |
References
- “scoparius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- scoparius 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)
- scoparius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.