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scapus (pluralscapi)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for“scapus”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)
FromProto-Indo-European*skāpos,[1] from*skāp- <*skeh₂p-(“rod, shaft, staff, club”). Cognate withLatinScipiō,Ancient Greekσκήπτω(skḗptō,“to prop; to hurl, shoot”),Proto-Germanic*skaftaz(“shaft, pole”), andProto-Slavic*kopьje(“spear, javelin”).
scāpus m (genitivescāpī);second declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | scāpus | scāpī |
| genitive | scāpī | scāpōrum |
| dative | scāpō | scāpīs |
| accusative | scāpum | scāpōs |
| ablative | scāpō | scāpīs |
| vocative | scāpe | scāpī |