scudo

American  

[skoo-doh] / ˈsku doʊ /

noun

• scudi
  plural

1. any of various gold or silver coins, of various Italian states, issued from the late 16th through the early 19th centuries.

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scudo British  

/ ˈskuːdəʊ /

noun

1. any of several former Italian coins

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• scudi
  plural

Etymology

Origin of scudo

1635–45; < Italian < Latin scūtum shield

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

scudo scudi

He is very charitable, and gives a great many pensions of a scudo a day to poor individuals of the mezzoceto class.

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare

And when they respond they must pay, each his own chairman, a scudo of gold.

From Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities by Arthur Orlo Norton

I bought of the same man a small engraved emerald, which he had just purchased of a peasant, and, without much examination, sold me for one scudo, as a basso-impero of ordinary quality.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

Thus, for one baiocco staked al posto assegnato, a scudo may be won; but to gain a scudo on a number senza posto, seven baiocchi must be played.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various

And then I was obliged to give the rascally servants civil words and my last scudo before they would even permit me to enter.

From Four Phases of Love by Paul Heyse

Che! due scudi? what do you mean by two scudi?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various

But the 48 scudi, which the wife confessed to have taken away from him, were fully restored to the said Abate Paolo, as is proved by his receipt, made during the trial.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous

Pope Julius II., who also lived between the sixth and sixteenth centuries, added to these offices one hundred writers or copyists of archives, each of whom had also to pay seven hundred and fifty scudi.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan

And as the hall must be abandoned as utterly useless, the 120,000 scudi lavished on preparing it are wasted.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger

A broad reminder from the cardinal put Reni on his mettle; he returned the 400 scudi, quitted Rome within a few days, and steadily resisted all attempts at recall.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various