Noun: scudo
| Singular | scudo |
| Plural | scudos; scudoes; scudi |
Sample Sentences
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And this was the salvation of his house, for several large chunks of plaster cracked off and inside he discovered a pot full of golden scudos. [2007, Giambattista Basile, translated by Nancy L. Canepa, Tale of Tales, Penguin, page 46:]
Nouns inflected like scudo
portico,
stiletto,
manifesto,
lazaretto,
capitano,
bravo,
cameo,
scudo,
intonaco,
duello,
ghetto,
fagotto,
casino,
trillo,
ridotto,
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian scudo (“a crown, a dollar, a shield”), from Latin scutum (“a shield”). Compare the doublets scute, escudo, scutum, and écu. See: Italian Nouns '
scudo', Latin Nouns '
scutum'.