testudo
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Unadapted borrowing from Latin testūdō (“tortoise, turtle, lyre, type of military shelter”).
testudo (plural testudos or testudoes or testudines)
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “testudo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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testudo (accusative singular testudon, plural testudoj, accusative plural testudojn)
From testa (“fragment of earthenware; shell or covering”).
testūdō f (genitive testūdinis); third declension
Third-declension noun.
testudo (feminine testuda, masculine plural testudos, feminine plural testudas)
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