scudo

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Definition of scudo

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noun

(historical)A silver coin and unit of currency of various Italian states from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

“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.”

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(historical)A silver coin and unit of currency of various Italian states from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

“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.”
A former unit of currency in Malta, now the official currency of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
(historical)A unit of currency in 19th-century Bolivia, equal to 16 soles.

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Borrowed from Italian scudo (“a crown, a dollar, a shield”), from Latin scutum (“a shield”). Compare the doublets scute, escudo, scutum, and écu.

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