scamnum

== Latin == === Etymology === For *scabnum, from Proto-Italic *skaβnom, from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-no-m, from *skabʰ- (“to hold up, support”). Cognate with Sanskrit स्कम्भ (skambhá, “prop, support, pillar”). === Noun === scamnum n (genitive scamnī); second declension stool, step, bench ridge (of earth formed by ploughing) breadth of a field ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== scabellum sublātiō super scamnum ==== Descendants ==== === References === “scamnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “scamnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "scamnum", 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) “scamnum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “scamnum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “scamnum”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press