See clipeus on Wiktionary
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"oval",
"oval"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(New Latin, archaeology) oval or other types of shields adopted in the Roman army of Late Antiquity after the Crisis of the Third Century"
],
"tags": [
"New-Latin",
"declension-2",
"masculine"
],
"topics": [
"archaeology",
"history",
"human-sciences",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈklɪ.pe.ʊs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈkliː.pe.us]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "clipeus"
}
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