plastron

Significado (Inglés)

1. The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace.
2. A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety.
3. A man's shirt-bosom.
4. An ornamental front panel on a woman's bodice.
5. A breastplate.
6. A film of air trapped by specialized hairs against the body of an aquatic insect, and which acts as an external gill.

Sinónimos

breastplate

bib

cuirass

dicky

chest protector

touching the plastron

breast-plate

ventral shield

aegis

sternal plate

Traducións

plastron

plastró

Brustplatte

cuirasse

corazza

thorax

pectorale

voorstuk

borstschild

peto

plastrón

الدّرع

coraza de pecho

Brustschild

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈplæstɹən/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Relativo a latín: emplastrum

Relativo a grego antigo: ἔμπλαστρον

In summary

Borrowed from French plastron, from Italian piastrone, augmentive of piastra (“breastplate”), from Latin emplastrum (“plaster”), from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron), from ἔμπλαστος (émplastos, “daubed, plastered”), from ἔμπλασσειν (émplassein, “to mould, form”).