clipeus clipeī m

1. 1

   a type of large round shield, properly: a type of round shield that was convex (bowl-shaped), at least around 0.9 m in diameter, and was gripped at the edge, with a fastening for the forearm in the middle

   = parma= scūtum

2. 2

   disk of the sun

3. 3

   vault of the sky

4. 4

   oval or other types of shields adopted in the Roman army of Late Antiquity after the Crisis of the Third Century