Scoti

See also: scoti

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Celtic, though the name does not correspond to any known tribes. Another possibility is a non-Indo-European substrate.

According to one theory, the original meaning was “cut off, outcast”, related to scoith (to cut off), from scoth (point, edge (of weapon)), from Proto-Celtic *skutā, from Proto-Indo-European *skewt- (to cut).[1]

See Scoti.

Pronunciation

Noun

Scōtī

  1. inflection of Scōtus:
    1. nominative/vocative plural
    2. genitive singular

Proper noun

Scōtī m pl (genitive Scōtōrum); second declension

  1. the Irish; Gaelic-speaking people of Ireland and Scotland
    Chronicon Scotorum
    Chronicle of the Irish
  2. the Scots; the Scottish people of northern Britain

Declension

Second-declension noun, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative Scōtī
Genitive Scōtōrum
Dative Scōtīs
Accusative Scōtōs
Ablative Scōtīs
Vocative Scōtī

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: Scots

References

  • Scoti”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Scoti in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. C. Oman, A History of England before the Norman Conquest, London, 1910, page 157
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