Etymograph

English

scapus

Scapus comes from Latin scapus ‘shaft’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscapus‘shaft’
  2. Englishtodayscapus

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscapus‘shaft’
  2. Englishtodayscapus

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂p- ‘rod, shaft, staff, club’

scope, shaft, sceptre, 3 more

through Latin scapus ‘shaft’

scape, 1 more

Today it means

noun A scape.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin scapus / scapus

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