scruta

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French

Pronunciation

Verb

scruta

  1. third-person singular past historic of scruter

Anagrams

Italian

Verb

scruta

  1. inflection of scrutare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain.[1] May be from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krew-t- or *(s)kroy-t-, extended from *(s)ker- (to cut). Probably cognate with Proto-Germanic *skraudaną (to cut up, shred) (whence Old High German scrōtan).[2] Compare also scrūpus.

Pronunciation

Noun

scrūta n pl (genitive scrūtōrum); second declension (plural only)

  1. rubbish, broken trash

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

plural
nominative scrūta
genitive scrūtōrum
dative scrūtīs
accusative scrūta
ablative scrūtīs
vocative scrūta

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “scrūta”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 548
  2. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*skrówdʰ-e-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 447

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French scruter, from Latin scrutari.

Verb

a scruta (third-person singular present scrutează, past participle scrutat) 1st conjugation

  1. to scrutinize

Conjugation