French

Verb

scruta

1. third-person singular past historic of scruter

Anagrams

• sucrât

Italian

Verb

scruta

1. third-person singular present indicative of scrutare
2. second-person singular imperative of scrutare

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)krew-, extended from *(s)ker- ‎(“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskruː.ta/

Noun

scrūta n pl ‎(genitive scrūtōrum); second declension (plural only)

1. rubbish, broken trash

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• scrūtārius
• scrūtor

References

• scruta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scruta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SCRUTA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “scruta”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• scrutiny in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911