scopulus

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκόπελος (skópelos, “lookout place: hence peak, headland, promontory”), from σκοπέω (skopéō). Compare specula and specus, from the same root.

Pronunciation

Noun

scopulus m (genitive scopulī); second declension

  1. crag, cliff (projecting rock)
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.180–181:
      Aenēās scopulum intereā cōnscendit, et omnem
      prōspectum lātē pelagō petit
      Meanwhile Aeneas scales the cliff, and searches the whole panorama wide open sea
  2. rock (in/under the sea)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scopulus scopulī
Genitive scopulī scopulōrum
Dative scopulō scopulīs
Accusative scopulum scopulōs
Ablative scopulō scopulīs
Vocative scopule scopulī

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: scoppio (“cliff”) (medieval hapax, Umbria)
  • Vulgar Latin: *scoculum (see there for further descendants)
  • → Italian: scopulo (learned)

References

Further reading

  • “scopulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “scopulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scopulus 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)
  • scopulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the ship strikes on the rocks: navis ad scopulos alliditur (B. C. 3. 27)
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