scapus

From Latin scapus (“shaft”).

scapus (plural scapi)

1. (botany, zoology) A scape.
2. (architecture) The shaft of a column.

• scaups

Uncertain. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂p- (“rod, shaft, staff, club”). De Vaan suggests that the term could be a borrowing from Ancient Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos) or it could more directly derive from the Proto-Indo-European root. Beekes suggests that Latin scāpus, Ancient Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos), and Albanian shkop may derive from an earlier Proto-Indo-European form *skeh₂p-o-.

Cognate with Latin Scipiō, Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to prop; to hurl, shoot”), Proto-Germanic *skaftaz (“shaft, pole”), and Proto-Slavic *kopьje (“spear, javelin”).

scāpus m (genitive scāpī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun.

• scōpa

• → English: scape
• → Italian: scapo
• → Portuguese: escapo

• “scapus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scapus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scapus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 546
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1350