scapha Latin · revision 32097

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc σκάφη}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈska.pʰa]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈskaː.fa]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''scapha''' ''f'' (genitive scaphae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|σκάφη|tr=skáphē|t=light boat, skiff]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler connects the Greek word with [[m|grc|σκάπτω|tr=skáptō|t=to dig]] and the root [[ine-pro|*(s)kā̆p-|t=to cut, split]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) whose ''Rudens'' has women jump from a ship into a skiff.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means a light boat or skiff, especially a ship's boat;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero, Livy and Horace use it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin keeps the sense boat or skiff.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of women leaping from a ship into the skiff.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A light [[m|en|boat]], [[m|en|skiff]], especially a ship's boat.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[scaphārius]]

+ * [[scaphula]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein groups it with ''[[cymba]]'' and ''[[linter]]'' as skiffs and wherries for short distances, against ''[[navis|alt=nāvis]]'', a ship for long voyages, and ''[[navigium|alt=nāvigium]]'', the general word for a vessel.^(Döderlein 1874) Scapha is also the name of an old maid in Plautus' ''Mostellaria''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}