stloppus

Latin

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Manuscript spellings of the stem include stlop-, stolp-, stloph-, stopl-, stlopl-, stop-, strop-, stropp-, troph-, sclopp-, sclop-, schlopp-, scolpp-, scloppl-, scoph-.[1] Since original /tl/ in Latin eventually passed regularly to /kl/ (as seen in vetulus > veclus), the manuscript forms and descendants are most simply explained by supposing the word originally started with /stl/, which evolved to /skl/ in all inherited Romance descendants, with an additional metathesis in Italian scoppio.

Noun

stloppus m (genitive stloppī); second declension[2]

  1. slap (sound produced by striking upon an inflated cheek)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative stloppus stloppī
genitive stloppī stloppōrum
dative stloppō stloppīs
accusative stloppum stloppōs
ablative stloppō stloppīs
vocative stloppe stloppī

Descendants

(All descendants reflect regular /tl/ > /kl/; cf. veclus.)

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: schioppo (“gun”), scoppio (“explosion”)
    • Neapolitan: schiuoppo
    • Sicilian: scoppu
  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: sclop
    • Ladin: schiop (“blowgun; gentian”)
    • Venetan: schiopo
    • →? Cimbrian: schuss (“gentian”) (calque)
    • → Mòcheno: sklopper (“gentian”)
  • Gallo-Romance:

References

  1. ^ Jahn, Otto (1843) Satirarum liber; cum scholiis antiquis, editit Otto Jahn‎[1], page 43
  2. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “stloppus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 12: Sk–š, page 278

Further reading

  • “stloppus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • scloppus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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