scarabaeus

== English == === Alternative forms === scarabeus scarabæus === Etymology === From Latin scarabaeus. Doublet of scarab. === Noun === scarabaeus (plural scarabaei or scarabaeuses) Obsolete form of scarab. == Latin == === Alternative forms === scarabēus === Etymology === Unknown, perhaps a foreign word, or with movable s- connected to the large family of words for shrimps, crayfish, scorpions and crabs beginning with /kaɾ/ mentioned at Persian خرچنگ (xarčang, “crab”), in which case borrowed from Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “beetle; crayfish”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ska.raˈbae̯.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ska.raˈbɛː.us] === Noun === scarabaeus m (genitive scarabaeī); second declension A scarab, black dung beetle, revered in Ancient Egypt. A beetle ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “scarabaeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “scarabaeus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.