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Scipio

Scipio

stick

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 132 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. scipio — de Vaan

scipio 'stick' [m. n] (PL+) Pit. *skeip-? PIE *s£eip-o- 'pole, stick'. IE cognates: Gr. σκϊπων 'staff, stick', σκοΐπος probably 'supporting beam on which the tiles rest' (Hsch.). The appurtenance of Skt sepa- 'penis' is a wild guess. Latin cippus and scipio may belong to the Greek words cited, but the family is isolated, and may well go back to loanwords. BibL: WH II: 496, EM 603, IEW 543. -► cippus scirpus — [de Vaan, s.v. scipio, p. 559]

2. scīpĭo — Lewis & Short

scīpĭo, ōnis, m.root skap-; Gr. skh/ptw, to support, ski/pwn, = skh=ptron, a staff; cf.: scāpus, scopio, scamnum,

I a staff (carried by persons of wealth, rank, high official station, etc.): unde ornatu hoc advenis? quid fecisti scipione? Plaut. Cas. 5, 4, 6; id. Am. 1, 3, 22; id. As. 1, 1, 111; id. Men. 5, 2, 103; Cat. 37, 10; Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 15: eburneus, carried by the viri triumphales, Liv. 5, 41 fin.; cf. Val. Max. 4, 4, 5; in the time of the emperors, also by the consuls, Val. Imp. ap. Vop. Aur. 13 fin. ; Amm. 29, 2, 15; given as a present from the Roman nation to friendly princes; so to Masinissa, Liv. 30, 15; 31, 11; to Eumenes, id. 42, 14 fin.

3. Scīpĭo — Lewis & Short

Scīpĭo, ōnis, m.1. scipio,

I the name of a celebrated family in the gens Cornelia, the most famous members of which were the two conquerors of the Carthaginians, P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus major, in the second, and P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus minor, in the third Punic war. —In hexameter verse scanned nom. Scīpĭŏ, Luc. 4, 658; Sil. 8, 548; 10, 427; 13, 386; 13, 449 al.; cf., in the foll., 3. init.—Hence,
1 Scīpĭōnĕus, a, um, adj., of the Scipios (late Lat.), Fab. Cl. Gord. Fulg. Act. Mundi, 11, p. 141.—
2 Scīpĭŏnārĭus, a, um, adj.: a Scipione quidam male dicunt Scipioninos: nam est Scipionarios, Varr. L. L. 9, § 71 Müll.—
3 Scīpĭădes or -as, ae, m. (cf. Prisc. p. 582 P), one of the Scipio family, a Scipio (poet. for Scipio, the oblique cases of which could not stand in hexameter verse): Scipiadas, belli fulmen, Carthaginis horror, Lucr. 3, 1034; v. Lachm. ad h. 1.; Lucil. ap. Fest. s. v. scurrae, p. 294 Müll.; nom. Scipiades, Claud. III. Cons. Stil. praef. 1; gen., dat. Scipiadae, Prop. 3, 11, 59 (4, 10, 67); Hor. S. 2, 1, 72; Claud. B. Get. 141; acc. Scipiadem, Hor. S. 2, 1, 17; v. Heind. and Duntz. ad h. 1.; plur. nom. Scipiadae, Manil. 2, 790; Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 381; gen. Scipiadum, id. Laud. Seren. 42; acc. Scipiadas, Verg. G. 2, 170; Claud. ap. Prop. et Olybr. 149.

4. scipiö — Walde–Hofmann

scipiö, -önis „Stab“ (seit Plaut, vgl. EN. Seipioó seit Enn., Scipiades seit Lucil, Scipióninus, -arius Varro): zu gr. oxinwv „Stab, Stock", s. cippus oben I 219 f. (Vanicek 311). seiropaeetes m. ,Gaukler mit Würfeln* (Not. Tir): s. Heraeus Kl. Schr. 98*. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. scipiö, p. 1402]

In the wild

6 of 1,947 attestations shown.

Where it came from

  • de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. scipio (scan pp. 559-560; entry #1567).
  • Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. scipiö (scan p. 1402; entry #2483).

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