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7-letter words (2 found)

DUETTOS,TESTUDO,

6-letter words (9 found)

DUETTO,DUETTS,OUSTED,OUTSET,SETOUT,SOTTED,TOUSED,TOUTED,TUTSED,

5-letter words (14 found)

DOEST,DOTES,DOUSE,DOUTS,DUETS,DUETT,OUTED,STOUT,STUDE,TOSED,TOTED,TOTES,TOUSE,TOUTS,

4-letter words (38 found)

DEUS,DOES,DOSE,DOST,DOTE,DOTS,DOUT,DUES,DUET,DUOS,DUST,ODES,OUDS,OUST,OUTS,SETT,SOUT,STED,STET,STOT,STUD,SUED,SUET,TEDS,TEST,TETS,TODS,TOED,TOES,TOSE,TOST,TOTE,TOTS,TOUT,TUTS,UDOS,USED,UTES,

3-letter words (34 found)

DOE,DOS,DOT,DSO,DUE,DUO,EDS,EST,ODE,ODS,OES,OSE,OUD,OUS,OUT,SED,SET,SOD,SOT,SOU,SUD,SUE,TED,TES,TET,TOD,TOE,TOT,TUT,UDO,UDS,USE,UTE,UTS,

2-letter words (15 found)

DE,DO,ED,ES,ET,OD,OE,OS,OU,SO,ST,TE,TO,US,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of testudo

testudo

Etymology

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

Noun

testudo (plural testudos or testudoes or testudines)

  1. (Ancient Rome, military, historical) A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
    Synonym: sheltron
  2. A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
  3. (anatomy) The fornix.
  4. (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.
  5. (pathology) An encysted tumour.

Translations

Anagrams

  • duettos

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin testūdō (“tortoise”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tesˈtudo]
  • Rhymes: -udo
  • Hyphenation: tes‧tu‧do

Noun

testudo (accusative singular testudon, plural testudoj, accusative plural testudojn)

  1. tortoise
  2. turtle
    Synonym: kelonio

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

From testa (“fragment of earthenware; shell or covering”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /tesˈtuː.doː/, [t̪ɛs̠ˈt̪uːd̪oː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tesˈtu.do/, [t̪esˈt̪uːd̪o]

Noun

testūdō f (genitive testūdinis); third declension

  1. tortoise, turtle
  2. tortoise-shell
  3. (by extension) lyre, lute
  4. (by extension, military) covering, shed, shelter
  5. (by extension, in buildings) arch, vault

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • testūdineātus
  • testūdineus

Related terms

Descendants

  • Italian: testuggine
  • Neapolitan: stuscene
  • → English: testudo
  • → Esperanto: testudo
  • → French: testudo
  • → Spanish: testudo

References

  • “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.
  • “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

Etymology

From testa +‎ -udo

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tes‧tu‧do

Adjective

testudo (feminine testuda, masculine plural testudos, feminine plural testudas)

  1. (of a person or animal) having a big forehead

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