• SCRATCH

1. s. vulnus leve (a slight wound): summae cutis laceratio: usually by circumlocution. He received a slight scratch on his arm, cutis brachii leviter perstricta est

2. v. radere (the proper word): scabere (to scrape): scalpere (to scrape, shave): fricare, perfricare (to rub gently): leviter perstringere (to wound slightly). To scratch the head, caput scabere or scalpere; caput perfricare: to scratch behind its ears with its hind feet, aures posterioribus pedibus scabere (☞ but radere aures or auriculas, in Quint., 3, 1, 3, and Persius, 1, 107, is = to offend the ears, of a speech, etc.). The pen scratches, *penna radit chartam: to scratch out, radere: eradere: exsculpere. To scratch out one’s eyes, oculos alicui effodere. I will scratch out your eyes, unguibus involabo tibi in oculos