Definitions for testudo

testudo tes·tu·do

Spelling: [te-stoo-doh, -styoo-]
IPA: /tɛˈstu doʊ, -ˈstyu-/

Testudo is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in testudo (deosttu).

Definitions for testudo

noun

  1. (among the ancient Romans) a movable shelter with a strong and usually fireproof arched roof, used for protection of soldiers in siege operations.
  2. a shelter formed by overlapping oblong shields, held by soldiers above their heads.

Origin of testudo

1350-1400 for earlier sense “tumor”; 1600-10 for def 1; Middle English Latin testūdō tortoise, tortoise shell, siege engine; akin to test2

Examples for testudo

From him, it would seem, are taken the words 'testudo' and 'tumulus'.

It was a gigantic tortoise—a specimen of testudo elephantopus—a huge cumbersome brute.

Mr. Lydekker prefers to drop the generic term Colossochelys, and call it testudo Atlas.

An English lute with a double neck (testudo theorbata) made about 1650.

The word for lyre in Greek (χέλυς) and in Latin (testudo) means also a tortoise.

Hibbard's testudo riggsi (Hibbard, 1944) is the best known of these smaller turtles.

The testudo, a wooden shelter, was also used, large enough to contain several men.

The testudo Mydas, or sea-turtle, frequent the bays of Antigua.

The sow was a military engine, resembling the Roman testudo.

In length it was only one-third greater than testudo elephantina of the Galapagos Islands.

Word Value for testudo
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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