testudo
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin testūdō (“tortoise, turtle, lyre, type of military shelter”).
Noun
[edit]testudo (plural testudos or testudoes or testudines)
- (Ancient Rome, military, historical) A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
- Synonym: sheltron
- A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
- (anatomy) The fornix.
- (music) A chelys (kind of lyre)
- Synonym: chelys lyre
- (pathology) An encysted tumour.
Translations
[edit]shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads
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References
[edit]- “testudo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin testūdō (“tortoise”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]testudo (accusative singular testudon, plural testudoj, accusative plural testudojn)
Derived terms
[edit]- martestudo (“sea turtle”)
- testudaĵo, testudŝelo (“tortoise shell”)
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From testa (“fragment of earthenware; shell or covering”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɛsˈtuː.doː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t̪esˈt̪uː.d̪o]
Noun
[edit]testūdō f (genitive testūdinis); third declension
- tortoise, turtle
- tortoise-shell
- (by extension) lyre, lute
- (by extension, military) covering, shed, shelter
- (by extension, in buildings) arch, vault
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.505–506:
- Tum foribus dīvae, mediā testūdine templī,
saepta armīs, soliōque altē subnīxa resēdit.- Then, [facing the] doorway of the goddess [Juno], [there] in the middle beneath the vault of the temple, surrounded by armed guards, and supported by the lofty throne, [Dido] remained seated.
- Tum foribus dīvae, mediā testūdine templī,
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | testūdō | testūdinēs |
genitive | testūdinis | testūdinum |
dative | testūdinī | testūdinibus |
accusative | testūdinem | testūdinēs |
ablative | testūdine | testūdinibus |
vocative | testūdō | testūdinēs |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Italian: testuggine
- Neapolitan: stuscene
- → English: testudo
- → Esperanto: testudo
- → French: testudo
- → Spanish: testudo
References
[edit]- “testudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “testudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "testudo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- testudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to advance to the walls protected by a covering of shields: testudine facta moenia subire (B. G. 2. 6)
- to advance to the walls protected by a covering of shields: testudine facta moenia subire (B. G. 2. 6)
- “testudo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- testudo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “testudo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: tes‧tu‧do
Adjective
[edit]testudo (feminine testuda, masculine plural testudos, feminine plural testudas)
- (of a person or animal) having a big forehead
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