Scorpion

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Middle English: via Old French from Latin scorpio(n- ), based on Greek skorpios ‘scorpion’.

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From Middle English scorpioun, skorpioun, schorpion, schorpiun, partly from Old English sċorpio and partly from Anglo-Norman scorpïun, Old French scorpïon, escorpïon; all from Latin scorpio, ultimately from Ancient Greek σκορπίος(skorpíos). The cheerleading move is so called because of the resemblance of the raised foot to a scorpion's stinger.

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scorpion (n.)

c. 1200, from Old French scorpion (12c.), from Latin scorpionem (nominative scorpio), extended form of scorpius, from Greek skorpios "a scorpion," from PIE root *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)). The Spanish alacran "scorpion" is from Arabic al-'aqrab.