Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Scopus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Scopidae – the hammerkop.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Ciconiiformes - order; Scopidae - family

References

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276

Latin

duae sagittae in scopō (two arrows in a target)

Alternative forms

• scopos

Noun

scopus m ‎(genitive scopī); second declension

1. a target

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• English: scope
• Irish: scóp
• Italian: scopo

References

• scopus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• SCOPUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “scopus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.