different between squama vs squamae

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin squ?ma (“scale”). Doublet of squame.

Noun

squama (plural squamae or squamas)

1. (medicine) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.
2. (botany) The bract of a deciduous spike.
3. (botany) Any scaly bracted leaf.
4. (entomology) calypter

Derived terms

• squamation

Related terms

• squamous

Further reading

• squama at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skwa.ma/

Etymology 1

From Latin squ?ma.

Noun

squama f (plural squame)

1. (zoology) scale (keratin piece covering the skin of reptiles and fishes)

   Synonym: scaglia

2. (anatomy) squama

Derived terms

• squamare
• squamoso

Etymology 2

Inflected form of the verb squamare.

Verb

squama

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

Latin

Etymology

Probably related to squ?lus (“filthy, foul”) or possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sk?a?.ma/, [?s?k?ä?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?skwa.ma/, [?skw??m?]

Noun

squ?ma f (genitive squ?mae); first declension

1. scale (of a fish or reptile)
2. (by extension) flake; any item shaped like a scale

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• squ?m?tus
• squ?meus
• squ?mifer / squ?miger
• squ?m?sus
• squ?mula

Descendants

References

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

English

Noun

squamae

1. plural of squama

Latin

Noun

squ?mae

1. nominative plural of squ?ma
2. genitive singular of squ?ma
3. dative singular of squ?ma
4. vocative plural of squ?ma