clypeus

From Latin clipeus (“round shield”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɪpɪəs/

clypeus (plural clypei)

1. (entomology) The shield-shaped front part of an insect's head or a spider's cephalothorax.
   • 1990, Daniel Evan Weiss, The Roaches Have No King (Serpent's Tail 2001, p.16)

     Cuisinart stuck a human eyelash to his clypeus with saliva, twisted it into a handlebar mustache, and greeted citizens as they arrived at the rim of the sink.

   • 1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe (Collins 1996, p. 14)

     When viewed from the front, the part of the carapace between the anterior eyes and the front edge of the carapace is called the clypeus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkly.pe.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkliː.pe.us]

clypeus m (genitive clypeī); second declension

1. alternative form of clipeus

Second-declension noun.

• "clypeus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)