testudo

Meaning

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

Synonyms

terrapin

tortoise formation

testudo formation

Translations

درع

Schildkröte

🐢

Schildkrötenformation

testudo

Etymology

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