scrobis Latin · revision 6209

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *skrobʰ-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''scrobis''' ''m'' or f (genitive scrobis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*skrof-i-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*skrobʰ-i-|t=hollow, pit]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[ru|скрести|tr=skrestí|t=to scratch]], [[lt|skrebė́ti|t=to rattle]], [[lv|skrabt|t=to scratch]] and [[ang|screpan|t=to scrape]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Balto-Slavic points to a root in *-bʰ-, with which Germanic agrees only partly.^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary relates it to [[scortum]] “hide” and [[cortex]] “bark”.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus, who has someone dig more than sixty holes a day.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a hole dug in the ground, a ditch or pit, especially for planting trees, as in Cato, and the hidden pits of Caesar's siege works.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It also meant a grave, as in Martial, Tacitus and Suetonius' Nero who had one dug to his measure.^(OLD 2012) It is mainly masculine, but feminine in Ovid, Columella, Lucan and Tacitus.^(OLD 2012) Priscian cites a nominative ''scrobs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Medieval Latin it was a pit, trench or furrow, also of a badger's set, a salt-pit or a grave.^(DMLBS) It survives in Romanian ''scorbură'' “hollow”, and English ''scrobe'' is borrowed from it.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of digging holes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of planting holes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of hidden pits.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial uses it of a grave.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A hole dug in the ground, [[m|en|pit]], [[m|en|ditch]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|grave]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[scrōfa]]

+ * [[scortum]]

+ * [[cortex]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}