scudicia

== Latin == === Etymology === From excōdicō (“to dig the earth around the base of a vine”), according to White (who argues that the frequently cited alternative proposal of derivation from excūdō (“to beat, hammer out”) is semantically inappropriate). In Isidore's time, the process of vowel prosthesis had led to the conflation in pronunciation of the prefix "ex" with word-initial "s" before a consonant. === Noun === scudicia f (genitive scudiciae); first declension (Late Latin, hapax legomenon) An implement used for breaking up the earth at the base of a plant, possibly a type of pickaxe, mattock, hoe, or spade ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. === References === === Further reading === “scudicia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “scudicia”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC