Fromscabō(“I scratch”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈska.ber/,[ˈs̠käbɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈska.ber/,[ˈskäːber]

scaber (femininescabra,neuterscabrum);first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in-er)

1. rough,scabrous
2. scabby,mangy,itchy
   • 8CE,Ovid,Fasti4.921–922:

     ‘Parce, precor,scabrāsque manūs ā messibus aufer
     nēve nocē cultīs: Posse nocēre sat est.’

     ‘‘Spare, I pray, and take [your]scabby hands off the harvests, and harm not [the fields] having been cultivated: Being able to harm is enough.’’
     (A prayer spoken by theFlamen Quirinalis during theRobigalia to propitiate the deity Robigo or Robigus and prevent agricultural diseases.)

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in-er).

• scabrēdō
• scabrōsus

• Catalan:escabre
• Italian:scabro

• “scaber”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scaber”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scaber inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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