scopa

Latin scopa (“broom”).

scopa (plural scopae)

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

Italian

scopa (uncountable)

1. (card games) A Neapolitan card game.

• Pasco, capos, pacos, posca

From Latin scopa.

scopa f (plural scope)

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

• scopare
• scopatura
• scopeto

scopa

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

• pasco, scapo

From Proto-Indo-European *skap-. Cognate with Latin Scipiō, scapus, scamnum, cippus, Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskoː.pa/

scōpa f (genitive scōpae); first declension

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

First declension.

• scōpō
• scopula

scōpā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of scōpō

• 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, 1883–1887)
• scopa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette