scrofa

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin scrōfa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskrɔ.fa/
  • Rhymes: -ɔfa
  • Hyphenation: scrò‧fa

Noun

scrofa f (plural scrofe)

  1. sow (female pig)
    Synonyms: (rare) maiala, porca, troia
  2. (derogatory, vulgar, slang) a bitch, a whore

Usage notes

  • Sometimes used pejoratively of a woman

Latin

Etymology

A non-Roman dialect form, originally "digger, rooter," from Proto-Indo-European *skrobʰ-h₂-, from *skrebʰ- (“to scrape”).

Pronunciation

Noun

scrōfa f (genitive scrōfae); first declension

  1. sow (female pig, especially one used for breeding)

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative scrōfa scrōfae
genitive scrōfae scrōfārum
dative scrōfae scrōfīs
accusative scrōfam scrōfās
ablative scrōfā scrōfīs
vocative scrōfa scrōfae

Synonyms

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Descendants

(Inherited)

  • Friulian: scrove
  • Venetan: scroa
  • French: écrou
  • Romanian: scroafă
  • Italian: scrofa
  • Occitan: escrova

(Borrowed)

References

  • “scrofa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “scrofa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scrofa 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)
  • scrofa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “scrofa”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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