Etymograph

English

scapular

Scapular comes from Latin scapula ‘shoulder’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *skapelā.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*skapelā‘shoulder blade’reconstructed
  2. Classical Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscapulae‘shoulders’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscapula‘shoulder’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEscapulāre
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500scapelar
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1971scapular

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*skapelā‘shoulder blade’reconstructed
  2. Classical Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscapulae‘shoulders’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscapula‘shoulder’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEscapulāre
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500scapelar
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1971scapular

Earliest quotation: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: “A scapular, or friar's coat, for example, was a…”

Every English word from Proto-Italic *skapelā

Another origin of scapular

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*skapelā‘shoulder blade’reconstructed
  2. Classical Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscapulae‘shoulders’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscapula‘a shoulder blade, scapula’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEscapulārīs
  5. Englishtodayscapular

Today it means

noun A short cloak worn around the shoulders, adopted as part of the uniform of various religious orders, later often with an embroidered image of a saint.

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Etymograph / Proto-Italic *skapelā / scapular

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