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Interestingly, the word testudo also comes from the Latin word for a protective shelter used for Roman soldiers heads, similar to a tortoise shell, so that could be the answer as well.

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  1. adverb In addition; besides.
  2. adverb Likewise; too: If you will stay, I will also.
  3. conjunction And in addition: It's a pretty cat, also friendly.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English ealswā : eall, all; see al-3 in Indo-European roots + swā, so; see so1.

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  1. from Middle English also, al so, al swo, al swa, from Anglo-Saxon ealswā, eal swā, just so, likewise (=G. also, thus): eal, adverb, all, just, quite; swā, so: see all and so. Doublet, as, q. v.
 

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/ˈɔlsoʊ/
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