clipeus
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editclipeus (plural clipei)
- A shield worn by soldiers of ancient Greece and Rome.
- An ornamental disk of marble in this shape.
- Part of the exoskeleton of an insect between the carapace and mandibles.
Translations
editornamental disk
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part of an insect's exoskeleton
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Anagrams
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editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editThe origin is uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Italic *klupeos.[1] It may be from Etruscan.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkli.pe.us/, [ˈklʲɪpeʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkli.pe.us/, [ˈkliːpeus]
Noun
editclipeus m (genitive clipeī); second declension
- 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.”
- “At geminī lāpsū dēlūbra ad summa dracōnēs
- disk of the sun
- vault of the sky
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | clipeus | clipeī |
Genitive | clipeī | clipeōrum |
Dative | clipeō | clipeīs |
Accusative | clipeum | clipeōs |
Ablative | clipeō | clipeīs |
Vocative | clipee | clipeī |
References
edit- “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
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “clipeus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 235
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