scaber
See also: Scąber
Latin
Etymology
From scabō (“I scratch”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈska.ber/, [ˈs̠käbɛr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈska.ber/, [ˈskäːber]
Adjective
scaber (feminine scabra, neuter scabrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- rough, scabrous
- scabby, mangy, itchy
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.921-922:
- ‘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 the Flamen Quirinalis during the Robigalia to propitiate the deity Robigo or Robigus and prevent agricultural diseases.)
- ‘‘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.’’
- ‘Parce, precor, scabrāsque manūs ā messibus aufer
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | scaber | scabra | scabrum | scabrī | scabrae | scabra | |
| Genitive | scabrī | scabrae | scabrī | scabrōrum | scabrārum | scabrōrum | |
| Dative | scabrō | scabrō | scabrīs | ||||
| Accusative | scabrum | scabram | scabrum | scabrōs | scabrās | scabra | |
| Ablative | scabrō | scabrā | scabrō | scabrīs | |||
| Vocative | scaber | scabra | scabrum | scabrī | scabrae | scabra | |
Descendants
- Catalan: escabre
References
- “scaber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scaber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scaber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette