English

Noun

scarabaeus ‎(plural scarabaei or scarabaeuses)

1. A scarab.

Latin

Alternative forms

• scarabēus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάραβος ‎(kárabos, “beetle, crayfish”), a foreign word, probably Ancient Macedonian (the suffix -bos is not Greek).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ska.raˈbae̯.us/, [ska.raˈbae̯.ʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /skaˈra.bɛ.us/, [skaˈraː.bɛ.us]

Noun

scarabaeus m ‎(genitive scarabaeī); second declension

1. A scarab, black dung beetle, revered in Ancient Egypt.

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

References

• scarabaeus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “scarabaeus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.