escudo

Meaning

1. (masculine) shield
2. (masculine) shield
3. (historical,masculine) escudo (obsolete Portuguese currency)

Hyphenated as

es‧cu‧do

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/isˈku.du/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese escudo (“shield”), from Latin scūtum (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skei- (“to cut, split”), which is an extension of *sek- (“to cut”). The name of the currency comes from the heraldic shields on the coins.