scortillum

Latin

Etymology

From scortum (hide, skin; whore, prostitute) + -illum (-elle, suffix forming diminutives).

Pronunciation

Noun

scortillum n (genitive scortillī); second declension

  1. A little whore: a young, small, inexperienced, cute, or unesteemed prostitute.
    • 1719, William Musgrave, Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicae..., Vol. I, Cap. XII, § I:
      Prima Venerem repraesentat. Tam eximia fuit, tamque praeclara Veneris forma, quae illam Cinyrae, Regi Cyprio, cujus Scortillum erat, commendaret...
      The first [statue] displays Venus. So exceptional and so renowned was the body of Venus, which presumably commended her to Cinyras, the Cyprians king, whose little Whore she was...
  2. A little slut: a young, small, inexperienced, cute, or unesteemed sexually active woman.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scortillum scortilla
Genitive scortillī scortillōrum
Dative scortillō scortillīs
Accusative scortillum scortilla
Ablative scortillō scortillīs
Vocative scortillum scortilla
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