scarus

From Latin scarus . See scar (“a kind of fish”).

scarus (plural scari)

1. A parrotfish, a Mediterranean food fish (any of various Scaridae species).

• “scarus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• scaurs

From Ancient Greek σκάρος (skáros).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈska.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskaː.rus]

scarus m (genitive scarī); second declension

1. scar, a kind of fish

Second-declension noun.

• → French: scare
• Italian: scaro
• Portuguese: escaro
• Spanish: escaro
• → Translingual: Scarus

• “scarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

·scarus

1. first-person singular preterite conjunct of scaraid