scorpio

See also: Scorpio

Latin

scorpius (a scorpion)

Alternative forms

• scorpios, scorpius

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκορπίος (skorpíos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskor.pi.oː/, [ˈs̠kɔrpioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskor.pi.o/, [ˈskɔrpio]

Noun

scorpiō m (genitive scorpiōnis); third declension

1. a scorpion
2. a kind of prickly sea fish, possibly the scorpionfish or sculpin
3. a kind of prickly plant
4. (military) scorpion, a small catapult
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.25:

     scorpione ab latere dextro traiectus exanimatusque concidit

     He was pierced and killed on the right side by a scorpion and fell

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	scorpiō	scorpiōnēs
genitive	scorpiōnis	scorpiōnum
dative	scorpiōnī	scorpiōnibus
accusative	scorpiōnem	scorpiōnēs
ablative	scorpiōne	scorpiōnibus
vocative	scorpiō	scorpiōnēs

Related terms

• scorpaena
• scorpiacum
• scorpioctonon
• scorpion
• scorpiōnius
• scorpītis
• scorpiūrus

 

Descendants

• →? Albanian: shkrap
• Catalan: escorpí
• Old French: scorpion
  • French: scorpion
  • → Middle Dutch: scorpioen
    • Dutch: schorpioen
  • → English: scorpion
    • → Welsh: sgorpion
• → German: Skorpion
• → Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍀𐌾𐍉 (skaurpjō)
• → Middle Irish: scoirp
  • Irish: scairp
• Italian: scorpione
• >? Italian: sgorbio
• → Middle Low German: schorpie
• → Norwegian Bokmål: skorpion
• Portuguese: escorpião
• Romanian: scorpion
• Romansch: scorpiun
• → Russian: скорпио́н m (skorpión)
• Sicilian: scurpiuni
• Spanish: escorpión

References

• “scorpio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scorpio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scorpio 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)
• scorpio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scorpio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “scorpio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin