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scoto-
1- a combining form meaning “darkness,†used in the formation of compound words:
scotoma.
Scoto-
2- a combining form representing Scots or Scottish in compound words:
Scoto-Irish.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of scoto-1
Example Sentences
I daresay you know the house, next door to La Scoto’s house on the north side of Lung’ Arno; but the rooms we inhabit are south, and look over the whole country towards the sea, so that we are entirely out of the bustle and disagreeable puzzi, etc., of the town, and hardly know that we are so enveloped until we descend into the street.
Lastly, among the names on Roman pottery, we have Scottus, Scoto, and Scotni, the last being a genitive, "Scotni manû."
Marino, con gli argomenti del conte Sanvitale, e l’allegorie di don Lorenzo Scoto.
I. in the British Museum: "Et in expens t misis fcis eosÄ‘ Vicetes Willo le Walleys Scoto latone predone puplico utlagato inimico et rebellione qui in contemptu Scociam se Regem Scocie falso fecÄt nÅiare t t ministros in tÄ«bus Scocie intfecit at duxt excercitÅ« hostilit contra RegÄ“ judiciÅ« Cur apud Westm distahendo suspendendo decollando ej viscera concremando ac ej corpus qarterando cuj coris quartia ad iiij majores villas Scocie tasmittebantur hoc anno.... �xj s. xd."
George Ellis and Murray have been talking something about Scott and me, George pro Scoto—and very right too.
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