testudo

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Definition of testudo

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Ancient-Rome, historical)A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
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noun

  1. (Ancient-Rome, historical)A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
  2. A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
  3. The fornix.
  4. A chelys (kind of lyre)
  5. An encysted tumour.

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Etymology

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

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