scortum

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Compare scrōtum, scrautum, scrūta. See also corium, Proto-Germanic *skeraną (whence English shear), Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), Albanian harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”), Old Armenian քերեմ (kʿerem, “to scrape, scratch”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskor.tum/, [ˈskɔr.tũ]

scortum n (genitive scortī); second declension

1. a skin, hide
2. a harlot, prostitute

Second declension.

• (prostitute): apodix f (Mediaeval), meretrīx f (slang)

• scorteus
• scortillum
• scortor

• scortātor
• scortātus
• scortea

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