scortillum

== Latin == === Etymology === From scortum (“hide, skin; whore, prostitute”) + -illum (suffix forming diminutives). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [skɔrˈtɪl.lũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [skorˈtil.lum] === Noun === scortillum n (genitive scortillī); second declension little whore (a young, small, inexperienced, cute, or unesteemed prostitute) 1719, William Musgrave, Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicae..., Vol. I, Cap. XII, § I: little slut (a young, small, inexperienced, cute, or unesteemed sexually active woman) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === Further reading === “scortillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “scortillum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.