English
scutellate
Scutellate comes from Latin scutella ‘a dish, salver’, and goes back to scutra.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscutra1‘tray, dish, platter’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscutella2‘a dish, salver’
- Englishtodayscutellate2
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin scutella
- 2 Wiktionary, English scutellate
Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscutraWiktionary, Latin scutella‘tray, dish, platter’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEscutellaWiktionary, English scutellate‘a dish, salver’
- EnglishtodayscutellateWiktionary, English scutellate
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *skey- ‘to cut, split’
nice, science, ship, equipment, shift, scientific, shed, skip, kyle, ski, conscious, shin, sheath, skeet, skiff, chine, prescient, skein, shud, 42 more
through Latin scūtum ‘shield’
through Latin scutella ‘a dish, salver’
Today it means
adj saucer-shaped
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “scutellate”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin scutella. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Latin scutra / scutellate