scopus

See also: Scopus

Latin

duae sagittae in scopō (two arrows in a target)

Alternative forms

• scopos

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti

Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai

Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Hellenic *-ós

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Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.

Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)

Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)bor.

Latin scopus

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 (“to see”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskɔ.pʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskɔː.pus]

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

• → German: Skopus
• 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, 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.