clipeus

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From Latin clipeus.

clipeus (plural clipei)

1. A shield worn by soldiers of ancient Greece and Rome.
2. An ornamental disk of marble in this shape.
3. Part of the exoskeleton of an insect between the carapace and mandibles.

• Pulices, spicule

• clupeus, clypeus

The origin is uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Italic *klupeos.^[1] It may be from Etruscan.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.pe.us/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.pe.us/,

clipeus m (genitive clipeī); second declension

1. round shield (especially of metal)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.225–227:

     “At geminī lāpsū dēlūbra ad summa dracōnēs
     effugiunt saevaeque petunt Trītōnidīs arcem
     sub pedibusque deae clipeīque sub orbe teguntur.”

     “But the two serpents escape by gliding to the highest temples , and seek the citadel of the fierce Tritonian , they shelter beneath the feet of the goddess and under the disc of shield.”

2. disk of the sun
3. vault of the sky

Second-declension noun.

• “clipeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clipeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clipeus 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)
• clipeus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “clipeus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “clipeus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin