pluteus.
movable screen; breastwork, shed;
Meaning & usage
A form of protective shed or breastwork.
A moveable screen.
A bookcase, bookshelf
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Italic *pluto-, of unknown ultimate origin. Possibly from a late Proto-Indo-European *ploh₃w-tó-m, *plow-tó-m?, shared with Old Norse fleyðr (“cross-beam”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *plouto (Lithuanian plaũtas, Latvian plàukts, Proto-Slavic *pluto (“flotsam”)).
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