Scipio

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪpɪəʊ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈskɪp.i.oʊ/

Scipio

1. A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use.

From scīpiō (“a staff, a walking stick”), of uncertain origin. Sometimes connected to Proto-Indo-European *skap-, which would make it cognate with scāpus, scōpa, scopiō, cippus, Ancient Greek σκήπτω (skḗptō), English shaft.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskiː.pi.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈʃiː.pi.o]

Scīpiō m (genitive Scīpiōnis); third declension

1. A Roman cognomen, usually referring to Scipio Africanus and his close relatives.

Third-declension noun.

• English: Scipio
• Greek: Σκιπίων (Skipíon)
• Italian: Scipione
• Polish: Scypion
• Translingual: Scipionyx

• “Scipio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Scipio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.