squama

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin squāma (“scale”). Doublet of squame. === Pronunciation === === Noun === squama (plural squamae or squamas) (medicine) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium. (botany) The bract of a deciduous spike. (botany) Any scaly bracted leaf. (entomology) A calypter. ==== Derived terms ==== squamation ==== Related terms ==== squamous === References === === Further reading === “squama”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈskwa.ma/ Rhymes: -ama Hyphenation: squà‧ma === Etymology 1 === From Latin squāma. ==== Noun ==== squama f (plural squame) (zoology) scale (keratin piece covering the skin of reptiles and fishes) Synonym: scaglia (anatomy) squama ===== Derived terms ===== squamare squamoso === Etymology 2 === Inflected form of the verb squamare. ==== Verb ==== squama inflection of squamare: third-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative == Latin == === Etymology === Probably related to squālus (“filthy, foul”) or possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈskʷaː.ma] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈskʷaː.ma] === Noun === squāma f (genitive squāmae); first declension scale (of a fish or reptile) (by extension) flake; any item shaped like a scale ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== squāmātus squāmeus squāmifer / squāmiger squāmōsus squāmula ==== Descendants ==== === References === “squama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “squama”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “squama”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.