# scopa
## English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

scopa (plural scopae)
* 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.

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian.

#### Noun

scopa (uncountable)
* (card games) A Neapolitan card game.

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* pacos, copsa, capos, OPACs, posca, Pasco

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsko.pa/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -opa
* Hyphenation: scó‧pa

### Etymology 1

From Latin scōpa.

#### Noun

scopa f (plural scope, diminutive scopìna or scopìno m or scopétta, augmentative (card game) scopóne, pejorative scopàccia)
* broom, besom
* (card games) a Neapolitan card game
* (botany) briar, tree heat

##### Related terms

* scopaio
* scopare
* scopatura
* scopeto
* scopista

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

scopa
* inflection of scopare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* caspo, pasco, posca, scapo

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *skōpās, from *skeh₂p- (“to prop”). Cognate with Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to prop up”), Latvian šķēps (“spear, javelin”), English shaft, Sicilian scupa. Compare also Scīpiō, scāpus, cippus.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈskoː.pa/, [ˈs̠koːpä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsko.pa/, [ˈskɔːpä]

### Noun

scōpa f (genitive scōpae); first declension
* branch of a plant
* (plural, in Classical Latin) broom, besom

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* scōpīlia
* scōpō
* scōpula
* *scōpārium (“barn”) (British Latin)
** Proto-Brythonic: *skʉbọr

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: scopa
** Sicilian: scupa
* Padanian:
** Emilian: scova
** Friulian: scove
** Lombard: scoa
** Piedmontese:
    Oriental: scoa, scova
** Romansch: scua
** Venetan: scoa, scova
*** →⇒ Italian: scovolo
* Northern Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: ècova
** Old French: escove, escobe, escouve
*** ⇒ French: écouvillon
**** → Catalan: escovilló
**** → English: ecouvillon
* Southern Gallo-Romance:
** Aragonese: escoba
** Catalan: escombra (influenced by escombrar)
** Occitan: escoba
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: escoba
** Galician: escoba
** Portuguese: escova
** Spanish: escoba
*** → Hiligaynon: eskoba
*** → Tagalog: eskoba
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: scova, iscòba, iscopa
* Ancient borrowings:
** → Albanian: shqopë
** → Middle Irish: scúap
*** Irish: scuab
*** Manx: skeab
*** Scottish Gaelic: sguab
** → Proto-Brythonic: *ɨskʉb
*** Middle Welsh: ysgub
**** Welsh: ysgub

### Verb

scōpā
* second-person singular present active imperative of scōpō

### References

* 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.
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 546

## Old English
### Noun

sċopa
* genitive plural of sċop