scopus

See also: Scopus

Latin

duae sagittae in scopō (two arrows in a target)

Alternative forms

• scopos

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.pus/, [ˈs̠kɔpʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.pus/, [ˈskɔːpus]

Noun

scopus m (genitive scopī); second declension

1. a target

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	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.