scacci

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskat.t͡ʃi/
  • Rhymes: -attʃi
  • Hyphenation: scàc‧ci

Verb

scacci

  1. inflection of scacciare:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Plural of scaccus (check).

Pronunciation

Noun

scaccī m pl (genitive scaccōrum); second declension

  1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) chess
    Synonym: lūdus scaccōrum

Usage notes

  • In the Classical pronunciation, scacci is consonantially identical to the modern Italian-language designation for chess scacchi, but this is not so in Ecclesiastical. Ecclesiastical or Italianate Latin is thus more likely to use the alternative form scacchi, which forces [k] before [i].

Declension

Second-declension noun, plural only.

plural
nominative scaccī
genitive scaccōrum
dative scaccīs
accusative scaccōs
ablative scaccīs
vocative scaccī

Derived terms

See also

Chess pieces in Latin · latrunculī, mīlitēs scaccōrum (layout · text)
rēx rēgīna turris sagittifer eques pedes

References