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PORTUGUESE · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

escudo.

shield

6 characters3 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/isˈku.du/Brazil/esˈku.du/Brazil/iʃˈku.du/Rio-de-Janeiro/eʃˈku.du/Rio-de-Janeiro

  1. shield

    masculine

  2. shield

    masculine

  3. escudo (obsolete Portuguese currency)

    historical · masculine
Where this word comes from

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.

verb

  1. first-person singular present indicative of escudar

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular
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