scopa

From Vulgar Latin scōpa (“broom”) (Latin scōpae (“twigs, broom”) ). Compare Spanish escoba (“broom”).

Large scopae on the hind legs of Dasypoda sp. bee

scopa (plural scopae)

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

Borrowed from Italian.

scopa (uncountable)

1. (card games) A Neapolitan card game.

• Pasco, capos, copsa, pacos, posca

• IPA^(key): /ˈsko.pa/
• Rhymes: -opa
• Hyphenation: scó‧pa

From Latin scōpa.

scopa f (plural scope, diminutive scopìna or scopìno m or scopétta, augmentative (card game) scopóne, pejorative scopàccia)

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

• scopaio
• scopare
• scopatura
• scopeto
• scopista

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

scopa

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

• caspo, pasco, posca, scapo

From Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂p- (“to prop”). Cognate with Latin Scīpiō, scāpus, scamnum, cippus, Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskoː.pa/, [ˈs̠koːpä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.pa/, [ˈskɔːpä]

scōpa f (genitive scōpae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• scōpīlia
• scōpō
• scōpula

scōpā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of scōpō

• Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology Portal: scopa
• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• scopa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette