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scommatice

scommatice [LL scomma+-icus+-e], as a joke or taunt, jokingly, mockingly, insultingly. non modo philosophos negant, immo nec clericos patiuntur, vix homines sinunt esse, sed boves Abrahe vel asinos Balaamitas, dumtaxat nominant, immo derident, aut siquid scomatice magis aut ledorice in eos dici potest J. Sal. Met. 832D; 1168 in se poeticum scomatice poterat retorquere ‘Actaeon ego sum’ Id. Ep. 251 (246).

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