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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). See also Latin corium, scortum, Proto-Germanic *skeraną (whence English shear), Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”).
Noun
scrapta f (genitive scraptae); first declension
- an epithet of a prostitute
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “scrapta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- scrapta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.