scutella Latin · revision 4249

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la scutra}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [skʊˈtɛl.la], [skʊˈtɛl.laː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [skuˈtɛl.la], [skuˈtɛl.la]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''scutella''' ''f'' (genitive scutellae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|scutra|-ella|t1=tray, platter]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The ancient grammarians, as Georges reports, derived it from [[scutum|alt=scūtum]] “shield”.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero, in the Tusculan Disputations, speaks of a cup of a sweet drink.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a small shallow dish or cup, and also a stand for other vessels, as Ulpian lists among the furnishings in the Digest.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Venantius Fortunatus uses it too.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In medieval Latin it meant a dish and so a meal.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Köbler 2010) Its descendants include [[fro|escuelle]], [[es|escudilla]] and [[it|scodella]].^(Etymonline) English ''scuttle'' “dish, basket” comes from late Old English ''scutel'', from this word.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a cup.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of a stand.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late Old English – Borrowed as ''scutel'', later [[m|en|scuttle]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A small shallow dish, cup, salver.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A stand for other vessels.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A dish of food, a meal.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|scuttle]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}