scaphium

Borrowed from Latin scaphium, from Ancient Greek σκάφιον (skáphion).

scaphium (plural scaphia)

1. (botany) The carina or keel of papilionaceous flowers.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκάφιον (skáphion), deminutive of σκάφη (skáphē, “bowl; skiff”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈska.pʰi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskaː.fi.um]

scaphium n (genitive scaphiī or scaphī); second declension

1. pot, bowl etc in the form of a boat

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Translingual: Scaphium

• “scaphium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scaphium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scaphium in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• scaphium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scaphium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin