scopa

From Vulgar Latin scōpa (“broom”) (Latin scōpae (“twigs, broom”) ). Compare Spanish escoba (“broom”).

scopa (plural scopae)

1. Any of various clusters of hair of non-parasitic bees that serve to carry pollen. In parasitic Hymenoptera it refers to a local patch of hairs, regardless of function.

Borrowed from Italian.

scopa (uncountable)

1. (card games) A Neapolitan card game.

• Pasco, capos, copsa, pacos, posca

• IPA^(key): /ˈsko.pa/
• Rhymes: -opa
• Hyphenation: scó‧pa

From Latin scōpa.

scopa f (plural scope, diminutive scopìna or scopìno m or scopétta, augmentative (card game) scopóne, pejorative scopàccia)

1. broom, besom
2. (card games) a Neapolitan card game
3. (botany) briar, tree heat

• scopaio
• scopare
• scopatura
• scopeto
• scopista

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

scopa

1. inflection of scopare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• caspo, pasco, posca, scapo

From Proto-Italic *skōpās, from *skeh₂p- (“to prop”). Cognate with Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to prop up”), Latvian šķēps (“spear, javelin”), English shaft.[1] Compare also Scīpiō, scāpus, cippus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskoː.pa/, [ˈs̠koːpä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.pa/, [ˈskɔːpä]

scōpa f (genitive scōpae); first declension

1. branch of a plant
2. (plural, in Classical Latin) broom, besom

First-declension noun.

• scōpīlia
• scōpō
• scōpula

scōpā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of scōpō

• Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology Portal: scopa
• “scopa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scopa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• scopa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.