• IPA^(key): /skʁy.ta/

scruta

1. third-person singular past historic of scruter

• sucrât

scruta

1. inflection of scrutare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Uncertain.^[1] May be from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krew-t- or *(s)kroy-t-, extended from *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Probably cognate with Proto-Germanic *skraudaną (“to cut up, shred”) (whence Old High German scrōtan).^[2] Compare also scrūpus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskruː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskruː.ta]

scrūta n pl (genitive scrūtōrum); second declension (plural only)

1. rubbish, broken trash

   vestīmentum aliquod ex vīlibus scrūtīs cōnsarcinātum ― some garment sewn of cheap scraps of cloth

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

• scrūtārius
• scrūtor

• “scruta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scruta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "scruta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “scruta”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “scrutiny”, in The Century Dictionary[…], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Borrowed from French scruter, from Latin scrutari.

a scruta (third-person singular present scrutează, past participle scrutat) 1st conjugation

1. to scrutinize