The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*skabʰ-“to scratch”
- Latin · borrowed fromscaber“scabrous, rough; scabby, mangy, itchy”
- English todayscabrous
Borrowed from Latin scaber (“scabrous, rough; scabby, mangy, itchy”) (from scabō (“to scratch, scrape, abrade”), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to scratch”)) + English -ous; compare French scabreux, Late Latin scabrōsus.
Words from the same roots
Latinscaber all →
scabrule
Proto-Indo-European*skabʰ- all →
shavescrab
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.