English Explanatory Dictionary

testudo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

testudo testudos testudoes testudines

Etymology

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

Synonyms

sheltron chelys lyre
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