testudo
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin testūdō (“tortoise, turtle, lyre, type of military shelter”).
Noun edit
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.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin testūdō (“tortoise”).
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
testudo (accusative singular testudon, plural testudoj, accusative plural testudojn)
Derived terms edit
- martestudo (“sea turtle”)
- testudaĵo, testudŝelo (“tortoise shell”)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From testa (“fragment of earthenware; shell or covering”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /tesˈtuː.doː/, [t̪ɛs̠ˈt̪uːd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tesˈtu.do/, [t̪esˈt̪uːd̪o]
Noun edit
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.
- Tum foribus dīvae, mediā testūdine templī,
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | testūdō | testūdinēs |
| Genitive | testūdinis | testūdinum |
| Dative | testūdinī | testūdinibus |
| Accusative | testūdinem | testūdinēs |
| Ablative | testūdine | testūdinibus |
| Vocative | testūdō | testūdinēs |
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Descendants edit
- Italian: testuggine
- Neapolitan: stuscene
- → English: testudo
- → Esperanto: testudo
- → French: testudo
- → Spanish: testudo
References edit
- “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)
- 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 edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: tes‧tu‧do
Adjective edit
testudo (feminine testuda, masculine plural testudos, feminine plural testudas)
- (of a person or animal) having a big forehead