scaber Latin · revision 32773

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *skbʰ-ro-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''scaber''' (feminine scabra, neuter scabrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is related to [[m|la|scabō|t=to scratch]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives it from [[itc-pro|*skafro-|t=rough]] and [[ine-pro|*skbʰ-ro-]], of a root meaning to scratch or plane, comparing [[lt|skõbti|t=to plane]] and [[goh|scaban|t=to plane]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008) Cato says that figs treated in a certain way will not become scabby.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is rough or scabrous from disease or dirt: a tragic line quoted by Cicero has a breast rough with filth, and it is said of sheep with the scab.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is used of diseased plants, of metal rough with rust, as in Virgil's javelins eaten by rust, and of any rough surface, as Virgil's rough tufa.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short find it in poetry and in prose after Augustus, often of roughness from uncleanness.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it rough, scabby, itchy, mangy.^(Stelten 1995) Köbler dates it from Catullus.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of scabby figs.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of rusty javelins and rough tufa.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of rough hands.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Rough or [[m|en|scabrous]] from disease or dirt; [[m|en|scabby]], [[m|en|mangy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of plants, scabbed; of metal, rough with [[m|en|rust]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Having a rough surface.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[scabrātus]]

+ * [[scabreō]]

+ * [[scabrēs]]

+ * [[scabritia]]

+ * [[scabrēdō]]

+ * [[scabrōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[scabo|alt=scabō]]

+ * [[scabies|alt=scabiēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}