Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Scotia

Scotia , noun

[Latin, from Greek skoti`a darkness, a sunken molding in the base of a pillar, so called from the dark shadow it casts, from sko`tos darkness.]

(Architecture) A concave molding used especially in classical architecture.

Scotia , noun

[Latin]

Scotland [Poetic]
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! — Burns