testudo.
A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
Meaning & usage
A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.
A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
The fornix.
A chelys (kind of lyre)
An encysted tumour.
Where this word comes from
Unadapted borrowing from Latin testūdō (“tortoise, turtle, lyre, type of military shelter”).
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