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English

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin testūdō (tortoise, turtle, lyre, type of military shelter).

Noun

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testudo (plural testudos or testudoes or testudines)

  1. (Ancient Rome, military, historical) A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
    Synonym: sheltron
  2. A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
  3. (anatomy) The fornix.
  4. (music) A chelys (kind of lyre)
    Synonym: chelys lyre
  5. (pathology) An encysted tumour.

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin testūdō (tortoise).

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • IPA(key): /tesˈtudo/
  • Rhymes: -udo
  • Hyphenation: tes‧tu‧do

Noun

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testudo (accusative singular testudon, plural testudoj, accusative plural testudojn)

  1. tortoise
  2. turtle
    Synonym: kelonio

Derived terms

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Latin

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Etymology

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From testa (fragment of earthenware; shell or covering).

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Noun

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testūdō f (genitive testūdinis); third declension

  1. tortoise, turtle
  2. tortoise-shell
  3. (by extension) lyre, lute
  4. (by extension, military) covering, shed, shelter
  5. (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.

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative testūdō testūdinēs
genitive testūdinis testūdinum
dative testūdinī testūdinibus
accusative testūdinem testūdinēs
ablative testūdine testūdinibus
vocative testūdō testūdinēs

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Italian: testuggine
  • Neapolitan: stuscene
  • English: testudo
  • Esperanto: testudo
  • French: testudo
  • Spanish: testudo

References

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  • 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)
  • 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

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Etymology

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From testa +‎ -udo

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  • Hyphenation: tes‧tu‧do

Adjective

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testudo (feminine testuda, masculine plural testudos, feminine plural testudas)

  1. (of a person or animal) having a big forehead