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- Latin · derived fromscōpātus
- English todayperscopate
From per- (“throughout, thoroughly”) + + Latin scōpātus, from scōpāre (“sweep”), from scōpa (“broom, bundle of sticks”) (classically only found as plural scōpae). By surface analysis, per- + scop(a) + -ate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.