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Etymology

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From Latin clipeus.

Noun

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clipeus (plural clipei)

  1. A shield worn by soldiers of ancient Greece and Rome.
  2. An ornamental disk of marble in this shape.
  3. Part of the exoskeleton of an insect between the carapace and mandibles.

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Etymology

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The origin is uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Italic *klupeos.[1] It may be from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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clipeus m (genitive clipeī); second declension

  1. round shield (especially of metal)
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.225–227:
      “At geminī lāpsū dēlūbra ad summa dracōnēs
      effugiunt saevaeque petunt Trītōnidīs arcem
      sub pedibusque deae clipeīque sub orbe teguntur.”
      “But the two serpents escape by gliding [away] to the highest temples [of Troy], and seek the citadel of the fierce Tritonian [Minerva], [where] they shelter beneath the feet of the goddess and under the disc of [her] shield.”
  2. disk of the sun
  3. vault of the sky

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative clipeus clipeī
Genitive clipeī clipeōrum
Dative clipeō clipeīs
Accusative clipeum clipeōs
Ablative clipeō clipeīs
Vocative clipee clipeī

References

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  • clipeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • clipeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • clipeus 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)
  • clipeus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • clipeus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • clipeus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “clipeus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 235