testudo

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English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Noun

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

shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads

Finnish: kilpikonnamuodostelma
Old English: sċildtruma m
Russian: черепа́ха (ru) f (čerepáxa)

References

“testudo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

duettos

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin testūdō (“tortoise”).

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /tesˈtudo/
Rhymes: -udo
Hyphenation: tes‧tu‧do

Noun

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

tortoise
turtle
Synonym: kelonio

Derived terms

martestudo (“sea turtle”)
testudaĵo, testudŝelo (“tortoise shell”)

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛsˈtuː.doː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪esˈt̪uː.d̪o]

Noun

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.

Declension

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

Related terms

Descendants

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

References

“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

Etymology

From testa +‎ -udo

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /tesˈtu.du/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /teʃˈtu.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /tesˈtu.do/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨʃˈtu.du/ [tɨʃˈtu.ðu]

Hyphenation: tes‧tu‧do

Adjective

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

(of a person or animal) having a big forehead