scopulum

scopulum is a Latin form of scopulus, meaning “rock, crag, cliff”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 79: … are tibi videbatur servorum nomen, quo quasi in portum reiectus a ceteris suspicionibus confugere posses; ubi scopulum offendis eius modi ut non modo ab hoc crimen resilire videas verum omnem suspicionem in vosmet ipsos recidere …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 8.70.3: Scopulum esse illum putamus dementissimi; portus est, aliquando petendus, numquam recusandus, in quem si quis intra pr …

All forms of scopulus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.