Scorpio

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Scor=pi=o

CIDE DICTIONARY

Scorpio, n. [L.].

•  A scorpion.  [1913 Webster]
•  The eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the twenty-third day of October, marked thus [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Scorpio, n. (pl. -os)
1 a constellation, traditionally regarded as contained in the figure of a scorpion.
2 a the eighth sign of the zodiac (the Scorpion). b a person born when the sun is in this sign.

Derivative

Scorpian adj. & n.

Etymology

ME f. L (as SCORPION)