Scaeva

== Translingual == === Etymology === Latin scaevus === Proper noun === Scaeva f A taxonomic genus within the family Syrphidae. ==== Hypernyms ==== (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Diptera – order; Brachycera – suborder; Muscomorpha – infraorder; Aschiza – section; Syrphoidea – superfamily; Syrphidae – family; Syrphinae - subfamily; Syrphini - tribe ==== Hyponyms ==== (genus): Scaeva affinis, Scaeva pyrastri, Scaeva selenitica - selected species === References === Scaeva on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Scaeva on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Scaeva on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Scaeva at BugGuide Scaeva at Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Scaeva at the Catalogue of Life Scaeva at National Center for Biotechnology Information == Latin == === Etymology === From scaeva (“left; left-handed; clumsy; unlucky”), from Proto-Italic *skaiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂iwos. === Proper noun === Scaeva m sg (genitive Scaevae); first declension a cognomen used by the gentes Junia, Sibidiena, Publicia, and others Decimus Junius Brutus Scaeva ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, singular only. ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “Scaeva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.