testudoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Unadapted borrowing from Latin testūdō (“tortoise, turtle, lyre, type of military shelter”).

名詞

testudo (plural testudos or testudoes or testudines)

1. (Ancient Rome, military, historical) A shelter formed by a body of troops holding their shields or targets close together over their heads.

   Synonym: sheltron

2. A shelter of similar shape for miners, etc.
3. (anatomy) The fornix.
4. (music) A chelys (kind of lyre)

   Synonym: chelys lyre

5. (pathology) An encysted tumour.

参照

• “testudo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• duettos

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [tɛsˈtuː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [tesˈtuː.do]

名詞

testūdō f (genitive testūdinis); third declension

1. tortoise, turtle
2. tortoise-shell
3. (by extension) lyre, lute
4. (by extension, military) covering, shed, shelter
5. (by extension, in buildings) arch, vault
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.505–506:

     Tum foribus dīvae, mediā testūdine templī,
     saepta armīs, soliōque altē subnīxa resēdit.

     Then, [facing the] doorway of the goddess [Juno], [there] in the middle beneath the vault of the temple, surrounded by armed guards, and supported by the lofty throne, [Dido] remained seated.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

• testūdineātus
• testūdineus

関連する語

派生した語

• Italian: testuggine
• Neapolitan: stuscene
• → English: testudo
• → Esperanto: testudo
• → French: testudo
• → Spanish: testudo

参照

• “testudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “testudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "testudo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “testudo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to advance to the walls protected by a covering of shields: testudine facta moenia subire (B. G. 2. 6)
    
• “testudo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• testudo in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “testudo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin