scratch, draw nails across (itch/affection); dig out (w/nails)
Latin word, found 33 times in the texts on Socratos.
Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.150: … lisque porrectio propter molles commissuras et artus nullo in motu laborat. itaque ad pingendum fingendum, ad scalpendum, ad nervorum eliciendos sonos ad tibiarum apta manus est admotione digitorum. Atque haec oblectationis, illa …
Horace, Carmina 3.11.52: scalpe querelam.”
Horace, Sermones 1.8.26: fecerat horrendas adspectu. scalpere terram
All forms of scalpo