scapula

From Late Latin scapula (“shoulder”).

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scapula (plural scapulas or scapulae)

1. (anatomy) Either of the two large, flat, bones forming the back of the shoulder.

• shoulder blade

• IPA^(key): /ˈska.pu.la/
• Rhymes: -apula
• Hyphenation: scà‧pu‧la

scapula f (plural scapule)

1. (literary, obsolete) alternative form of scapola

• scapula in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• capsula

Late Latin scapula "shoulder" from Classical Latin scapulae (“shoulders”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈska.pʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskaː.pu.la]

scapula f (genitive scapulae); first declension

1. (anatomy) A shoulder blade,

First-declension noun.

• scapulāre
• scapulāris
• scapulārium
• scapulārus

• “scapula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "scapula", 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)
• scapula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scapula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers