scoparius

Latin scōpārius

scoparius (uncountable)

1. The dried tops of the plant Cytisus scoparius, formerly used in medicine.
   • 1895, Henry Martyn Bracken, Outlines of Materia Medica and Pharmacology, page 255:

     Scoparin […] is used — chiefly as a constituent of scoparius — for its diuretic action in certain forms of dropsy.

From scōpae (“broom”) +‎ -ārius.

scōpārius m (genitive scōpāriī or scōpārī); second declension

1. sweeper

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• scōpae

• Translingual: used in several taxonomic names either as the genus Scoparia, or as an epithet, e.g. Cucullia scopariae.

scōpārius (feminine scōpāria, neuter scōpārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. (New Latin) Used as a specific epithet; of a broom.

• Used almost exclusively as a taxonomic epithet and thus not normally in inflected forms other than the nominative singular.

First/second-declension adjective.

• “scoparius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scoparius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• scoparius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.