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Yes. The word arcus is a Scrabble US word. The word arcus is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (2 found)

ARCUS,SCAUR,

4-letter words (10 found)

ARCS,CARS,CRUS,CURS,RUCS,RUSA,SCAR,SCUR,SURA,URSA,

3-letter words (11 found)

ARC,ARS,CAR,CRU,CUR,RAS,RUC,SAC,SAR,SAU,SUR,

2-letter words (4 found)

AR,AS,UR,US,

You can make 27 words from arcus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of arcus

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Definitions and meaning of arcus

arcus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arcus. Doublet of arc and arco. Distantly related to arrow.

Noun

arcus (plural arcus)

  1. (medicine) A white band of cholesterol that forms at the edge of the cornea
  2. (meteorology) A low, horizontal cloud typically forming at the leading edge of thunderstorm outflow
  3. (entomology) An elastic band around the base of the arolium, a pad at the end of the leg of certain insects
  4. (palynology) An arc-shaped band of thickened sexine extending between two apertures on a pollen grain or spore

Related terms

  • arc
  • arcuate
  • arcus juvenilis
  • arcus senilis

Translations

Anagrams

  • Curas, carus, scaur

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *arkuos (“bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos (“bow, arrow”). Cognate to Old English earh, whence English arrow, as well as Proto-Slavic *orkyta (“willow”) and Ancient Greek ἄρκευθος (árkeuthos, “juniper”), owing to juniper and willow twigs being used to make bows due to their flexibility.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈar.kus/, [ˈärkʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈar.kus/, [ˈärkus]

Noun

arcus m (genitive arcūs); fourth declension

  1. arc, arch
  2. bow (arc-shaped weapon used for archery)
  3. rainbow

Declension

Fourth-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -ubus).

Derived terms

Related terms

  • arcuātus

Descendants

See also

  • discus
  • sagitta

References

  • “arcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “arcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • arcus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • arcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “arcus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • arcus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • “arcus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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