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Qu'est-ce (qui) est Testudo - définition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Testudo (constellation); Testudo (disambiguation)
Testudo
·noun A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre;
- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.
II. Testudo ·noun A genus of tortoises which formerly included a large number of diverse forms, but is now restricted to certain terrestrial species, such as the European land tortoise (Testudo Graeca) and the gopher of the Southern United States.
III. Testudo ·noun A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels.
testudo
[t?'stju:d??, -'stu:-]
¦ noun (plural testudos or testudines -d?ni:z) (in ancient Rome) a screen on wheels and with an arched roof, used to protect besieging troops.
?a protective screen formed by a body of troops holding their shields above their heads.
Origin
ME: from L., lit. 'tortoise', from testa 'tile, shell'.
Testudo formation
.jpg?width=200 "Roman soldiers in \"tortoise\" formation")
![From the [[Column of Marcus Aurelius]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Testudo_relief_Marcus_Aurelius_column.png?width=200 "From the [[Column of Marcus Aurelius]]")
![reenactment]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/testudo formation.jpg?width=200 "reenactment]]")
![17th century depiction by [[Wenceslaus Hollar]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wenceslas Hollar - A testudo.jpg?width=200 "17th century depiction by [[Wenceslaus Hollar]]")
![[[2005 Belize unrest]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Protest_0030.JPG?width=200 "[[2005 Belize unrest]]")
DEFENSIVE SHIELD WALL USED BY ROMAN LEGIONS
Tortoise formation; Turtle formation; Tortoise attack
In Ancient Roman warfare, the testudo or tortoise formation was a type of shield wall formation commonly used by the Roman legions during battles, particularly sieges.
Wikipédia
Testudo
Testudo (which meant "tortoise" in classical Latin) may refer to:
- Battering ram, an armored siege engine with metal plating on the top to protect from missiles fired from above
- Chevrolet Testudo, a concept car designed and built by Bertone on a Chevrolet Corvair unibody chassis
- Steel Testudo or the Nationalist-Socialist Party of Romania, 1930s political party
- Testudo (mascot), the mascot of University of Maryland, College Park
- Testudo (genus), a genus in the tortoise family of turtles
- Testudo formation, a Roman military tactic which involved a formation of soldiers using their shields to form a tortoise-shell-like protective cover against enemy weapons
- Testudo, the Latin variant of the Greek chelys harp, involving a sound-box made from a tortoise shell
- Testudo, an obsolete constellation now in the constellation of Pisces
Exemples du corpus de texte pour Testudo
1. The spur thigh tortoise – or Testudo graeca in Latin – was donated to Longleat in 2002 when she developed depression due to her lack of manoeuvrability.
2. En los ultimos anos llegaron por primera vez al parque zoologico nacional Cygnus atratus, Testudo gracea, Capra hircus, Cercopithecus aethiops, Cervus axis y Cervus dama.