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English

Etymology

From Latin squ?ma. Doublet of squama.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /skwe?m/

Noun

squame (plural squames)

1. (zoology) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
2. (medicine) A flake of dead skin tissue.
   • 2011, Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2011, p. 80:

     Squames begin life as normal cells in the lower layers of the epidermis but, as they travel towards the surface, they progressively lose all recognizable contents, becoming plates of mainly keratin protein, based on a progressive deposition of protein on the intermediate filaments of the cytoskeleton.

3. (medicine) A squamous (scale-like) cell.
4. (anatomy) A bony plate.

Anagrams

• masque

French

Etymology

Learned alteration of Old French eschame, after its source, Latin squama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skwam/

Noun

squame f (plural squames)

1. (archaic or literary) scale

Further reading

• “squame” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

squame f

1. plural of squama

Middle English

Alternative forms

• (early) scwame
• (Northern) swame

Etymology

From Old French esquame, from Latin squ?ma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skwa?m(?)/

Noun

squame (plural squames)

1. Metal that flakes; a flake of such metal.
2. (pathology) A flake or scale.
3. (rare) Any scale or plate.

Related terms

• squamous

Descendants

• English: squame

References

• “squ?me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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