scorpio
Latin
noun
Definitions
- a scorpion
- a kind of prickly sea fish, possibly the scorpionfish or sculpin
- a kind of prickly plant
- (military) scorpion, a small catapult
Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek σκορπίος (scorpion).
Origin
Ancient Greek
σκορπίος
Gloss
scorpion
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Scorpion English
- scorpius Latin
- scorpiō Latin
- scorpiōnem, scorpiō Latin
- Seeskorpion German
- Skorpion German
- Wasserskorpion German
- skorpió Hungarian
- skorpiók Hungarian
- scorpione Italian
- Scorpion French
- scorpion French
- скорпион Russian
- σκορπίος Ancient Greek
- σκορπίων Ancient Greek
- σκορπιοκτόνον Ancient Greek
- σκόρπαινα Ancient Greek
- σκόρπιος Ancient Greek
- *(s)ker- Proto-Indo-European
- skorpion Norwegian Bokmål
- skorpion Norwegian Nynorsk
- scorpïon Old French
- escorpí Catalan, Valencian
- Scorpion Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- scorpion Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- scorpio Old High German
- skorpions Latvian
- scorpiōn Middle High German
- skorpion Estonian
- skorpjun Maltese
- scorpiuni Sicilian
- scorpïun xno