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6-letter words (1 found)

SCUTUM,

5-letter words (2 found)

CUSUM,MUCUS,

4-letter words (11 found)

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3-letter words (10 found)

CUM,CUT,MUS,MUT,SUM,TUM,UMS,UMU,UTS,UTU,

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MU,ST,UM,US,UT,

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Definitions and meaning of scutum

scutum

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scūtum (“shield”). Doublet of escudo, scudo, scute, and écu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskjuːtəm/

Noun

scutum (plural scuta or scutums)

  1. (historical, Roman antiquity) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavily armed infantry of the Roman army.
  2. (zoology) A scute.
  3. (zoology) A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum)
  4. (zoology) One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
  5. (anatomy) The kneecap.

Synonyms

  • scuta


Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *skoitom (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skoi-to- (“piece of wood, sheath, shield”), from *skey- (“to cut, split”); cognate with Old Irish scíath (“shield”), Russian щит (ščit, “id”). Alternative theories derive the term from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover, protect”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskuː.tum/, [ˈs̠kuːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsku.tum/, [ˈskuːt̪um]

Noun

scūtum n (genitive scūtī); second declension

  1. a type of shield: the scutum, the large oblong wooden shield carried by the Roman infantry
  2. a shield
  3. (by metonymy) shield-bearing soldiers
  4. (figuratively) a defense, protection, shelter

Usage notes

  • Although it has a technical meaning denoting a type of Roman shield, this word appears to have been also the generic word for "shield", suitable for referring to shields of other shapes and make.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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References

  • “scutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “scutum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scutum 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)
  • “scutum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “scutum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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