different between scarab vs scarabaeus

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle French scarabée, from Latin scarabaeus (“beetle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skæ??b/
• (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /?sk???b/

Noun

scarab (plural scarabs)

1. A beetle of the species Scarabaeus sacer, sacred to the ancient Egyptians.
2. Any species of beetle belonging to the family Scarabaeidae.
3. A symbol, seal, amulet, or gem fashioned to resemble the sacred beetle.

Synonyms

• cockchafer, dung beetle, June bug, scarabaeus (obsolete)

Derived terms

• scarabaeid
• scarabaeoid

Descendants

• ? Irish: scarab
• ? Welsh: sgarab

Translations

Anagrams

• Barsac

English

Alternative forms

• scarabeus
• scarabæus

Etymology

From Latin scarabaeus.

Noun

scarabaeus (plural scarabaei or scarabaeuses)

1. Obsolete form of scarab.

Latin

Alternative forms

• scarab?us

Etymology

Unknown, perhaps a foreign word, or with movable s- connected to the large family of words for shrimps, crayfish, scorpions and crabs beginning with /ka?/ mentioned at Persian ?????? (xar?ang, “crab”) to which Ancient Greek ??????? (kárabos, “beetle; crayfish”) is to be set in this context.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ska.ra?bae?.us/, [s?kä?ä?bäe??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ska.ra?be.us/, [sk????b??us]

Noun

scarabaeus m (genitive scarabae?); second declension

1. A scarab, black dung beetle, revered in Ancient Egypt.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• scarabaeus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scarabaeus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette