English

Noun

scapus ‎(plural scapi)

1. (botany, zoology) A scape.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *skapos,^[1] from *skap-. Cognate with Latin Scipiō, scamnum, cippus, Ancient Greek σκήπτω ‎(skḗptō).

Noun

scapus m ‎(genitive scapī); second declension

1. stem, stalk (of a plant)
2. shaft (or similar upright column)

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• scōpa

Descendants

• English: scape
• Portuguese: escapo

References

• scapus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “scapus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• scapus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

1. ↑ A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, Second Edition: Quiles, Language and Culture, Writing System and Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Texts and Dictionary