The corpus record — Latin

scalprum

scalprum · n

a sharp cutting instrument; a chisel

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Where it lives

Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
De Medicina 10 · 0.98/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 1 · 0.58/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

scalprum — Lewis & Short

scalprum, i, n. (collat. form scalper, ri, m.,

Cels. 8, 3) [scalpo],

I a sharp cutting instrument; a chisel, knife, etc., of sculptors, husbandmen, shoemakers, surgeons, etc., Liv. 27, 49; Col. 4, 25, 1; Hor. S. 2, 3, 106; Cels. 8, 3 sq.; Sen. Ep. 65, 13.—A penknife, Tac. A. 5, 8; Suet. Vit. 2.—Of a pruning-knife, Plin. 17, 16, 26, § 119.

In the wild

scalpro Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.25.2
scalprum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.25.1
scalpro Celsus, De Medicina 8.10.p8
scalpro Celsus, De Medicina 8.4.p4
scalpri Celsus, De Medicina 8.3.p1
scalpro Cato, De agri cultura 42

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Where it came from

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