scopus

See also: Scopus

Latin
duae sagittae in scopō (two arrows in a target)

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós), from Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai (“to look at”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḱep-ye-, from a metathesis of *speḱ-. Cognate to Latin speciō (“I see”).

Pronunciation

Noun

scopus m (genitive scopī); second declension

  1. a target

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scopus scopī
Genitive scopī scopōrum
Dative scopō scopīs
Accusative scopum scopōs
Ablative scopō scopīs
Vocative scope scopī

Descendants
  • Italian: scopo
    • → English: scope
      • → Irish: scóp
  • Portuguese: escopo
  • Spanish: escopo

References
  • “scopus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • scopus 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)
  • scopus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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