scarifo

== Latin == === Alternative forms === scarīficō === Etymology === From Ancient Greek σκαρῑφάομαι (skarīpháomai, “to scratch an outline (on the body)”), from σκᾰ́ρῑφος (skắrīphos, “etching, writing”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- (the source of Latin scribō). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [skaˈriː.foː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [skaˈriː.fo] === Verb === scarīfō (present infinitive scarīfāre, perfect active scarīfāvī, supine scarīfātum); first conjugation (transitive) to scratch open, scarify ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== scarīfātiō, scarīficātiō ==== Descendants ==== Galician: escarvar Spanish: escarbar === References === “scarifo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “scarifo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers