testudo

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads. Ancient-Rome,historical
  2. A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
  3. The fornix.
  4. A chelys (kind of lyre)
  5. An encysted tumour.

词形变化

testudos plural testudoes plural testudines plural

词源

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