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Latin
Etymology
From scurra (“jester, joker”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
scurrīlis (neuter scurrīle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- buffoonlike, scurrilous
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Descendants
Further reading
- “scurrilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scurrilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scurrilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.