Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA silver coin and unit of currency of various Italian states from the 16th to the 19th centuries. · A former unit of currency in Malta, now the official currency of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. · A unit of currency in 19th-century Bolivia, equal to 16 soles.
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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