scopulus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek σκόπελος (skópelos, “lookout place: hence peak, headland, promontory”), from σκοπέω (skopéō). Compare specula and specus, from the same root. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈskɔ.pʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈskɔː.pu.lus] === Noun === scopulus m (genitive scopulī); second declension crag, cliff (projecting rock) rock (in/under the sea) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== scopulōsus ==== Descendants ==== === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “scŏpŭlus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 11: S–Si, page 325 === Further reading === “scopulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “scopulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "scopulus", 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) “scopulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.