shield

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
2. (figuratively) Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
3. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
4. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
5. Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
6. A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos.
7. (Scotland, euphemistic, obsolete) A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos.
8. A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos.
9. (obsolete) A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos.
10. A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos.
11. (colloquial) A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos.
12. A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
13. A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
14. (Scotland, euphemistic, figuratively, obsolete) A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory.
15. (British, English) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To protect, to defend.
2. (UK, intransitive) To shelter; to protect oneself.
3. To protect from the influence of.

Sinónimos

protect

screen

shelter

cover

safeguard

guard

💂

shielding

protection

defend

buckler

escutcheon

hide

preserve

armor

shade

armour

aegis

shell

🐚

defense

conceal

sign

hood

harbour

barrier

carapace

save

curtain

harbor

defence

shield from

scutum

screening

cloak

ward off

leather shield

auspices

scutcheon

cap

asylum

covering

protector

secure

mask

😷

cuticle

patronage

board

folding screen

coat of mail

coat of arms

coating

Traducións

bouclier

🛡️

Schild

scudo

🛡️

escudo

🛡️

schild

🛡️

escudo

🛡️

écu

🛡️

scutum

escut

🛡️

ασπίδα

kalkan

🛡️

escut

uithangbord

wapenschild

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ʃiːld/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: scheld

Herdado de Old English: scield

Relativo a frisón occidental: skyld

Relativo a neerlandés: schild

Relativo a alemán: Schild

Relativo a dinamarqués: skjold

Relativo a islandés: skjöldur

Relativo a feroés: skjøldur

Relativo a latín: scūtum

Relativo a irlandés: sciath

Relativo a Latgalian: škīda

Relativo a lituano: skydas

Relativo a ruso: щит

Herdado de Middle English: shelden

Herdado de Old English: scildan

In summary

From Middle English scheld, shelde, from Old English scield (“shield”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeldu, from Proto-Germanic *skelduz (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“cut, split”). Cognate with West Frisian skyld, Dutch schild (“shield”), German Schild (“shield”), Danish skjold (“shield”), Icelandic skjöldur (“shield”) and Faroese skjøldur (“shield”).
Compare Latin scūtum (“shield”), Irish sciath (“shield”), Latgalian škīda (“shield”), Lithuanian skydas (“shield”), Russian щит (ščit, “shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover, protect”), *skey- (“to cut, split”).