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Definition of Scudo
1. n. A silver coin, and money of account, used in Italy and Sicily, varying in value, in different parts, but worth about 4 shillings sterling, or about 96 cents; also, a gold coin worth about the same.
Definition of Scudo
1. Noun. The former monetary unit of Italy, Bolivia and Malta during the 18th and 19th century. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scudo
1. a former Italian coin [n -DI]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scudo
Literary usage of Scudo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, Its Growth, and Its Fall 421-1797 by William Carew Hazlitt (1900)
"... first gold ducat (1284)—The Legends—-Earliest pieces with the likeness of the
Doge—The practice promptly abolished—The scudo di oro (1528-30)—The silver ..."
2. A Dictionary of Numismatic Names, Their Official and Popular Designations by Albert Romer Frey (1917)
"The name was used to distinguish it from the scudo di Oro of one hundred and ...
scudo means a shield, and the coin receives its name from the figure of a ..."
3. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1865)
"Fétis mentions the fact as a mere report, but if it be true, now, that scudo has
so unfortunately fallen a victim to mental derangement, it carries with it ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The ancient papal florin was equal to 2 scudi and 11 baiocchi (1 baiocco = 0-01
scudi) ; one ducat was equal to one scudo and ..."
5. Two Hundred and Nine Days: Or, The Journal of a Traveller on the Continent by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1827)
"... of the shadow of which we were sensible; and immediately afterwards were landed
at the scudo di Francia in Venice, hungry, and almost starved with cold. ..."
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