escudo

See also: escudó

English

Etymology

From Portuguese escudo (“shield”). Doublet of scutum, scute, écu, and scudo.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːdəʊ

Noun

escudo (plural escudos)

1. The state currency formerly used in Portugal, divided into 100 centavos. The symbol is $ which is positioned between the escudos & centavos, 2$50.
2. The currency formerly used in Chile and replaced by the Peso.
3. The current currency of Cape Verde.

Translations

former currency of Portugal

• Catalan: escut (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 士姑度 (si⁶ gu¹ dou⁶)

  Mandarin: 埃斯庫多／埃斯库多 (zh) (āisīkùduō)

• Esperanto: eskudo
• Galician: escudo (gl) m
• Greek: σκούδο (el) n (skoúdo), εσκούδο (el) n (eskoúdo)
• Irish: escudo na Portaingéile m, escudo Portaingéalach m
• Japanese: エスクード (ja)
• Malay: escudo
• Portuguese: escudo (pt) m
• Romanian: escudo (ro)
• Russian: эску́до (ru) m (eskúdo)
• Spanish: escudo (es) m

former currency of Chile

• Esperanto: eskudo
• Galician: escudo (gl) m
• Japanese: エスクード (ja)
• Portuguese: escudo (pt) m
• Romanian: escudo (ro) m
• Russian: эску́до (ru) m (eskúdo)
• Spanish: escudo (es) m

currency of Cape Verde

• Catalan: escut (ca) m
• Esperanto: eskudo
• Galician: escudo (gl) m
• Irish: escudo Rinn Verde m
• Japanese: エスクード (ja)
• Russian: эску́до (ru) m (eskúdo)
• Spanish: escudo (es) m

Anagrams

• souced

French

Noun

escudo f (plural escudos)

1. escudo (currency)

Galician

Escudo (coat of arms of the Kingdom of Galicia, c. 1560)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkudo/ [es̺ˈku.ð̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: es‧cu‧do

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese escudo, from Latin scūtum.

Noun

escudo m (plural escudos)

1. shield
   • 1437, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 170:

     Oyde, que mandan diser noso señor El Rey por sua carta firmada de seu nome et seelada de seu seelo a todos los omees de pe fillos dalgo que viuen et están en esta çibdade, casados et por casar, de viinte anos arriba et de çincoenta a juso, que se presenten todos con suas espadas et escudos et lanças et outras armas que teueren ante Loys Garçia de Córdoua

     Hear! our lord the King orders, by his letter signed with his name and sealed with his seal, that every free man, infantryman, who lives in this city, married and unmarried, being twenty years old or more, fifty years or less, that all of them must present themselves with their swords and shields and spears and other arms that they happen to have before Lois Garcia de Córdoba

2. coat of arms
   • 1274, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), "De Viveiro en la Edad Media", Estudios Mindonienses, 7, page 87:

     hua carta do dito Johan Peres, fillo que foy de dito Fedro Ponço, seelada de seu seelo pendente de cera enno qual seelo era vn escudo et enno escudo duas omagees de cabezas

     a letter by this Xoán Pérez, son of the late Fedro Ponzo, sealed with his hanging wax seal, and on this seal there was a coat of arms, and on that coat two images of heads

Etymology 2

From Portuguese escudo.

Noun

escudo m (plural escudos)

1. escudo (former currency of Portugal)
2. (historical) a medieval local currency
   • 1473, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 30:

     Iten digo que eu agora non teño mais debdas que a de tristam de montenegro tio da dita miña moller que me emprestou de hua vez trinta escudos e de outra seys marcos de plata

     Item, I said that at the moment I have no more debts than that with Tristán de Montenegro, my wife's uncle, who lent me thirty escudos at one time and six silver marcs on another occasion

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

escudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of escudar

Verb

escudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of escudir

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “escudo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escudo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escudo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escudo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escudo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈsku.do/
• Rhymes: -udo
• Hyphenation: e‧scù‧do

Noun

escudo m (plural escudi)

1. escudo (all senses)

Anagrams

• seduco

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

escudo m (definite singular escudoen, indefinite plural escudo or escudos, definite plural escudoene)

1. an escudo

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

escudo m (plural escudoen)

1. an escudo

Portuguese

escudos (1)

escudos (3)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese escudo (“shield”), from Latin scūtum (“shield”), from Proto-Indo-European *skei- (“to cut, split”), which is an extension of *sek- (“to cut”). The name of the currency comes from the heraldic shields on the coins.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈku.du/, /esˈku.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈku.du/, /esˈku.du/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃˈku.du/, /eʃˈku.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /esˈku.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃˈku.du/ [(i)ʃˈku.ðu]

• Hyphenation: es‧cu‧do

Noun

escudo m (plural escudos)

1. shield
2. (heraldry) shield
3. (historical, numismatics) escudo (obsolete Portuguese currency)

Related terms

• (shield): armadura, defesa
• (heraldic shield): brasão
• (currency): moeda, cifrão, euro, dinheiro

Descendants

• → English: escudo

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese escudo. Doublet of scut.

Noun

escudo m (plural escudo)

1. escudo

Declension

Declension of escudo

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) escudo	escudoul	(niște) escudo	escudoi
genitive/dative	(unui) escudo	escudoului	(unor) escudo	escudolor
vocative	escudoule		escudolor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkudo/ [esˈku.ð̞o]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -udo
• Syllabification: es‧cu‧do

escudos (1)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish escudo, from Latin scūtum, from Proto-Indo-European *skei- (“to cut, split”), an extension of *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with English écu, scudo and escudo.

Noun

escudo m (plural escudos)

1. shield

   Synonym: (New Mexico) chimal

2. emblem

   Synonym: emblema

3. (heraldry) coat of arms, escutcheon
4. (geology) shield
5. (numismatics) any of several, mostly historical, currencies including the escudo, écu, and the scudo

Hyponyms

• escudo humano
• escudo de carne (“meat shield”)
• escudo de armas

Derived terms

• escudar (verb)
• escudillo m

 

Related terms

• escudero

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

escudo

1. first-person singular present indicative of escudar

Further reading

• “escudo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16