clipeus.
round/embossed shield (usu. bronze); disk of sun; vault of sky; meteorite;
Meaning & usage
a type of large round shield, properly: a type of round shield that was convex (bowl-shaped), at least around 0.9 m in diameter, and was gripped at the edge, with a fastening for the forearm in the middle
disk of the sun
vault of the sky
oval or other types of shields adopted in the Roman army of Late Antiquity after the Crisis of the Third Century
Where this word comes from
Unknown. The variation between -i- and -u- is observed elsewhere after -l-, as in libet and lubet.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.