English Explanatory Dictionary

scudo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A silver coin and unit of currency of various Italian states from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
  2. A former unit of currency in Malta, now the official currency of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
  3. A unit of currency in 19th-century Bolivia, equal to 16 soles.

Word forms

scudo scudos scudoes scudi

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian scudo (“a crown, a dollar, a shield”), from Latin scutum (“a shield”). Compare the doublets scute, escudo, scutum, and écu.

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