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scapus

scapus · m

a shaft

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Where it lives

De Architectura 38 · 6.59/10k
Gallieni Duo 1 · 2.72/10k
De Re Coquinaria 1 · 0.64/10k
Naturalis Historia 15 · 0.38/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

1. scapus — Lewis & Short

scapus, i, m.root skap-; Gr. skh/ptw, to prop, skh=ptron; Doric, ska=pos; cf.: scipio, scamnum, scopus; Engl. shaft,

I a shaft, stem, stalk, trunk, etc.

I In gen., Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 5; Col. 9, 4, 4; Plin. 18, 10, 21, § 95; Sen. Ep. 86, 17.—

II In partic.

A A cylinder on which sheets of paper or leaves of papyrus were rolled, Plin. 13, 12, 23, § 77.—

B A sheet of paper: aliquid papyri illinere scapo, Varr. ap. Non. 168, 14.—

C A weaver's yarn-beam, Lucr. 5, 1353.—

D The shaft of a column, Vitr. 3, 2 sq.—

E The shank of a candlestick, Plin. 34, 3, 6, § 11.—

F The post or newel of a circular staircase, Vitr. 9, 2 fin.—

G The main stile of a door on which it hinged, Vitr. 4, 6.—

H The beam of a balance, Vitr. 10, 8; Fest. s. v. agina, p. 10 Müll.; and s. v. librile, p. 116 ib.—

K = membrum virile, Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 24 fin.; Veg. 5, 14, 17.

2. scäpus — Walde–Hofmann

scäpus, -; m. „Schaft, Stiel, Stengel, Stamm“ (seit Varro. [-fGreg. Tur.], rom. *scápiculus; scäpulus Greg. Tur. [vgl. scäpolum : füstis longa Gl], scäpinius Schol. Hor): zu gr. oxfintpov usw. (s. unten; trotz C. Meyer Alb. Stud. III 60 ist alb. $kop „Stock, Szepter* nicht aus dem.Griech. entl., da sich die Bed. nicht decken, vgl. auch Solmsen Beitr. 207), ahd. skaft „Schaft, Speer, Lanze“, as, skaft „Speer“, ndl. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. scäpus, p. 1396]

In the wild

scapos Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.15.4
scaporum Vitruvius, De Architectura 3.3.11
scapi Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.1.1
scapi Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.2.11
scapi Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.11.7
scapi Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.3.4

6 of 57 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. scapus (scan p. 624; entry #10271).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. scäpus (scan p. 1396; entry #2464). Root candidates: *skäp-, *sköp-, *skeip-.

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