screa

Unclear, related to screō (“to hawk”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskre.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskrɛː.a]

screa n pl (genitive screōrum); second declension (only attested in a gloss)

1. sputum, spittle spat out from one's mouth by hawking

   Near-synonym: spūtum

   • [2nd century CE, Sextus Pompeius Festus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, De Significatione Verborum, published 1839, page 333, lines 29-33; epitomized by Paul the Deacon, 8th c.:

     Scraptae dicebantur nugatoriae, ac despiciendae mulieres, ut ait unus†, ab his† quae screa iidem appelabant, id est quae quis excreare solet, quatenus id faciendo se purgaret.

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Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

screa, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011