testudo

English

noun
Definitions
  • (historical) A shelter formed by a body of troops by holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
  • A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
  • (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.
  • An encysted tumour.
  • (anatomy) The fornix.

Etymology

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

Origin

Latin

testūdō

Gloss

tortoise, turtle, type of military shelter, lyre

Concept
Semantic Field

Animals

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

龜

Emoji
🐢

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