clipeus

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[1]. It may be from Etruscan.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.pe.us/, [ˈklɪ.pe.ʊs]

clipeus m (genitive clipeī); second declension

1. shield (round, especially of bronze)
2. disk of the sun
3. vault of the sky

Second declension.

• 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, 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