different between sagittarius vs scutum

Latin

Etymology

From sagitta (“arrow”) +? -?rius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa.?it?ta?.ri.us/, [s?ä??t??t?ä??i?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.d??it?ta.ri.us/, [s?d??it??t????ius]

Adjective

sagitt?rius (feminine sagitt?ria, neuter sagitt?rium); first/second-declension adjective

1. armed with a bow and arrows
2. of or concerning arrows

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

• English: sagittary

Noun

sagitt?rius m (genitive sagitt?ri? or sagitt?r?); second declension

1. archer, bowman
2. fletcher, arrow-maker

Declension

Second-declension noun.

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

Descendants

Related terms

References

• sagittarius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sagittarius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sagittarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sagittarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sc?tum (“shield”). Doublet of escudo, scudo, scute, and écu.

Noun

scutum (plural scuta)

1. (historical, Roman antiquity) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry of the Roman army.
2. (zoology) A scute.
3. (zoology) A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum)
4. (zoology) One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
5. (anatomy) The kneecap.

Latin

Etymology

Referred to either Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover, protect”) or Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split”). See Old Irish scíath, Russian ??? (š?it).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sku?.tum/, [?s?ku?t????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sku.tum/, [?sku?t?um]

Noun

sc?tum n (genitive sc?t?); second declension

1. a shield, especially the scutum, the large oblong wooden shield carried by the Roman infantry
2. (by metonymy) shield-bearing soldiers
3. (figuratively) a defense, protection, shelter

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Related terms

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: scut
• ? English: scute
• ? English: scutum
• ? English: escutcheon
• Italian: scudo
  • ? English: scudo
• Old French: escut, escu
  • Middle French: escut
    • French: écu
      • ? English: écu
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: escudu
• Old Occitan: escut
  • Catalan: escut
  • Occitan: escut
• Old Portuguese: escudo
  • Galician: escudo
  • Portuguese: escudo
    • ? English: escudo
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: escudo
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: scût
• Sicilian: scutu
• ? Albanian: *šk?ta (possibly)
  • Albanian: shqyt

References

• scutum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scutum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scutum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• scutum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scutum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin