scabellum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin scabellum. === Noun === scabellum (plural scabella) (music, historical) A kind of percussion instrument played by the foot, used in dramatic performances. == Latin == === Alternative forms === scabillum === Etymology === From scamnum (“stool, ridge”) + -lum (diminutive suffix). === Noun === scabellum n (genitive scabellī); second declension footstool a kind of percussion instrument played by the foot, used in dramatic performances. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== Italian: sgabello Old French: eschevel French: écheveau Walloon: escabele Walloon: exhea, exhea Old Occitan: escabel Old Catalan: escabell, escambell Catalan: escambell → Spanish: escabel Occitan: escabèl Old Galician-Portuguese: Portuguese: escabelo Piedmontese: scabel Romanian: scăunel (uncertain) Sicilian: sgabeḍḍu → Alemannic German: Gstabëlle → English: scabellum → French: escabeau→ Dutch: schabouw → Norman: scabelle → Proto-West Germanic: *skamil (see there for further descendants) === References === “scabellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “scabellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "scabellum", 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) “scabellum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “scabellum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “scabellum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin