different between scopa vs megachilid

English

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin sc?pa (“broom”) (Latin sc?pae (“twigs, broom”) ). Compare Spanish escoba (“broom”)

Noun

scopa (plural scopae)

1. Any of various body parts of non-parasitic bees that serve to carry pollen. In parasitic Hymenoptera it refers to a local patch of hairs, regardless of function.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian

Noun

scopa (uncountable)

1. (card games) A Neapolitan card game.

Translations

Anagrams

• Pasco, capos, copsa, pacos, posca

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin sc?pa.

Noun

scopa f (plural scope)

1. broom, besom
2. (card games) A Neapolitan card game.
3. (botany) briar, tree heat

Related terms

• scopaio
• scopare
• scopatura
• scopeto
• scopista

Verb

scopa

1. third-person singular present indicative of scopare
2. second-person singular imperative of scopare

Anagrams

• pasco, scapo

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *skap-. Cognate with Latin Sc?pi?, sc?pus, scamnum, cippus, Ancient Greek ?????? (sk?pt?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sko?.pa/, [?s?ko?pä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sko.pa/, [?sk??p?]

Noun

sc?pa f (genitive sc?pae); first declension

1. branch of a plant
2. (plural, in Classical Latin) broom, besom

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• sc?p?
• scopula

Descendants

Verb

sc?p?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sc?p?

References

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

English

Noun

megachilid (plural megachilids)

1. (zoology) Any of the family Megachilidae of mostly solitary bees whose scopa is restricted to the ventral surface of the abdomen.