scandula Latin · revision 9387

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|attested=Hirtius}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''scandula''' ''f'' (genitive scandulae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The later form ''scindula'' was made as if from ''scindō'' “to split”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The OLD calls the origin doubtful.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short and Köbler derive it from [[scandō]] “to climb”, the shingles rising like steps one above another; de Vaan traces ⟨scandō⟩ to [[ine-pro|*skend-|t=to jump up]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary instead derives it from [[ine-pro|*sked-|t=to split]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short and Köbler cite Hirtius, in the eighth book of Caesar's ''Gallic War''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Hirtius about 50 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a wooden shingle for roofing, mostly in the plural, as in Hirtius, Vitruvius, Pliny the Elder and Columella.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Late Latin ''scindula'' was borrowed into Old English as ''scindel'', the source of [[en|shingle]], and into German ''Schindel''.^(Etymonline) It survives in Italian ''scandola'' and Romanian ''scândură'' “plank”.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Hirtius uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late Old English – ''scindel'' “shingle” is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A wooden [[m|en|shingle]] for roofing.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[scandulāca]]

+ * [[scandulāris]]

+ * [[scandulārius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[scandō]]

+ * [[scindō]]

+ * [[en|shingle]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A second ''scandula'', a kind of grain, appears in Diocletian's price edict and in Isidore, who explains the name by its being split in two.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Isidore) Spanish ''escanda'' “spelt” continues it.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}