testudo
English
Etymology
Borrowed 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 kind of lyre; so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.
- (pathology) An encysted tumour.
Translations
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for testudo in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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) IPA(key): /tesˈtuː.doː/, [t̪ɛs̠ˈt̪uːd̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tesˈtu.do/, [t̪esˈt̪uːd̪o]
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
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | testūdō | testūdinēs |
Genitive | testūdinis | testūdinum |
Dative | testūdinī | testūdinibus |
Accusative | testūdinem | testūdinēs |
Ablative | testūdine | testūdinibus |
Vocative | testūdō | testūdinēs |
Derived terms
- testūdineātus
- testūdineus
Related terms
- testa
- testāceus
- testātim
- testeus
- testū
- testuātium
- testula
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, 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, 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