scutum
English
noun
Definitions
- (historical) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry of the Roman army.
- (zoology) A scute.
- (zoology) A shield-like protection, such as the scutum protecting the back of a hard tick (cf. alloscutum, conscutum)
- (zoology) One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
- (anatomy) The kneecap.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin scūtum (shield, a shield).
Origin
Latin
scūtum
Gloss
shield, a shield
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
盾
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Scutum English
- alloscutum English
- anteromesoscutum English
- mesoscutum English
- prescutum English
- pseudoscutum English
- scūtum Latin
- scūtārius Latin
- Scudo Italian
- scudo Italian
- *skei- Proto-Indo-European
- *skewH- Proto-Indo-European
- escut Old French
- scut Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- shqyt Albanian
- escudo Old Portuguese
- escudu Asturian
- scût Friulian
- escut Old Occitan
- escudo Old Spanish