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scutum

[ skyoo-tuhm ]

noun

plural: scuta genitive: Scuti
  1. Zoology. scute ( def 1 ).
  2. a large, oblong shield used by the heavy legionaries of ancient Rome.
  3. genitive Scuti [skoo, -tahy]. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the Shield, a southern constellation north of Sagittarius and east of Aquila, containing a small, very bright star cloud.


Scutum

1

/ ˈːə /

noun

  1. a small faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Sagittarius and Aquila and crossed by the Milky Way Also calledScutum Sobieskiisɒˈbjɛskɪ
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

scutum

2

/ ˈːə /

noun

  1. the middle of three plates into which the notum of an insect's thorax is divided
  2. another word for scute
  3. a large Roman shield
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of scutum1

First recorded in 1765–75; from Latin ūٳܳ “s󾱱”
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of scutum1

Latin, literally: the Shield

Origin of scutum2

Latin: shield
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Some stars, like UY Scuti, an extreme red hypergiant in the constellation Scutum, have a radius 1,700 times our sun, which could fit inside it almost 5 billion times.

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The Scutum Constellation guards the Wild Duck Cluster, a collection of stars that resembles a flock of ducks.

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But the abundant star type known as δ Scuti7, named after a star in the constellation Scutum, has remained one of the exceptions.

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Found globally, these insects are named for their outsized scutellum, from the Latin word scutum, meaning shield.

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In 2011 Dame and colleagues used radio measurements to tentatively trace the path of one spiral arm, called Scutum–Centaurus.

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