scaber

See also: Scąber

Latin

Etymology

From scabō (“I scratch”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

scaber (feminine scabra, neuter scabrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

  1. rough, scabrous
  2. scabby, mangy, itchy
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.921–922:
      ‘Parce, precor, scabrāsque manūs ā messibus aufer
      nēve nocē cultīs: Posse nocēre sat est.’
      ‘‘Spare, I pray, and take [your] scabby hands off the harvests, and harm not [the fields] having been cultivated: Being able to harm is enough.’’
      (A prayer spoken by the Flamen Quirinalis during the Robigalia to propitiate the deity Robigo or Robigus and prevent agricultural diseases.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative scaber scabra scabrum scabrī scabrae scabra
Genitive scabrī scabrae scabrī scabrōrum scabrārum scabrōrum
Dative scabrō scabrō scabrīs
Accusative scabrum scabram scabrum scabrōs scabrās scabra
Ablative scabrō scabrā scabrō scabrīs
Vocative scaber scabra scabrum scabrī scabrae scabra

Descendants
  • Catalan: escabre

References
  • “scaber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “scaber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scaber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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