Noun: scortum
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Declension: Second
Nominative
| Singular | scortum |
| Plural | scorta |
Genitive
| Singular | scortī |
| Plural | scortōrum |
Dative
| Singular | scortō |
| Plural | scortīs |
Accusative
| Singular | scortum |
| Plural | scorta |
Ablative
| Singular | scortō |
| Plural | scortīs |
Vocative
| Singular | scortum |
| Plural | scorta |
Sample Sentences
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Nam ut cuiusque studium ex aetāte flāgrābat, aliīs scorta praebēre, aliīs canēs atque equōs mercārī. (As the passions of each, according to his years, appeared excited, he furnished mistresses to some, bought horses and dogs for others.) [c. 42 BCE, Gaius Sallustius Crispus, Bellum Catilinae 14.6]
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Near-synonym: cutis
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Apud Terentium: Scortatur, potat, olet vnguentum, de meo. Scortari est sæpius meretriculam ducere, quæ scortum dicta à pelle. Id enim non solum antiqui dicebant, sed etiam nunc dicimus scortea ea, quæ ex corio, & pellibus sunt facta. Inde in aliquot sacris ac sacellis scriptũ habemus: ne quod scorteum adhibeatur, ideo, ne morticinum quid adsit. In Atellanis licet animaduertere rusticos dicere, se adduxisse pro scorto pelliculam. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 6]
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Qualis ille Hercules in serico Omphales fuerit, iam Ompahle in Herculis scorto designata descripsit. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 160 CE – c. 225 CE, Tertullianus, De pallio 4.3]
Nouns inflected like scortum
palmētum,
miliardum,
rēctangulum,
bactērium,
frūctum,
melimēlum,
scītum,
scūtum,
lanthanum,
sertum,
sacrum,
pentaptōtum,
dēcrēmentum,
sorbum,
fundibulum,
alphabētum,
siglum,
signum,
flābrum,
nūtrīmentum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-Italic *(s)korto-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k(o)rt-o- (“that which is cut; a cutting”), perhaps from *(s)kert-, from the root *(s)ker- (“to cut”), which has other derivatives meaning “skin” or “bark”. Compare Latin scrōtum, scrautum, scrūta. See also corium, Proto-Germanic *skeraną (whence English shear), Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”), Albanian harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian ski̇̀rti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”), Old Armenian քերեմ (kʻerem, “to scrape, scratch”). Piecewise doublet of curtum.
2. The prostitute sense may have arisen from the former skin, leather sense through scortum subigere (“beat leather; tan leather”), as an ancient metaphor for sexual intercourse. According to Festus, Scorta appellantur meretrices, quia ut pelliculae subiguntur, “Prostitutes are called ‘leathers’ because they are beaten/tanned like small skins.” Cf. Latin pellicula (“small skin; (in farce) whore”), Spanish pelleja (“skin, hide; whore”). Hammarström observes that skin removed from the animal is loose, flexible and lacks hold.
3. Also compare typologically Russian шку́ра (škúra) (cognate via PIE). See: English Nouns '
shear'.
Verbs referencing "scortum"
Italian Nouns
scorza, Russian Nouns
шкура, Latin Nouns
scrobis.
Translations