tūtēla ae, f 2 TV-, a watching, keeping, charge, care, safeguard, defence, protection: nullam corporis partem vacuam tutelā relinquere: Apollo, cuius in tutelā Athenas esse voluerunt: filios suos tutelae populi commendare: dii, quorum tutelae ea loca essent, L.: tutelae nostrae (eos) duximus, regarded as under our protection, L.: ut dicar tutelā pulsa Minervae, O.

—In law, the office of guardian, guardianship, wardship, tutelage: qui tibi in tutelam est traditus: in suam tutelam venire, i. e. to come of age: ad sanos abeat tutela propinquos, H.: tutelarum iura.

—A keeper, ward, guardian, watch, protector: (Philemon et Baucis) templi tutela fuere, O.: prorae tutela Melanthus, i. e. the pilot, O.: o tutela praesens Italiae (Augustus), H.

—A charge, care, trust: mirabamur, te ignorare, de tutelā legitimā . . . nihil usucapi posse, i. e. a ward's esiate.

—A ward: Virginum primae puerique Deliae tutela deae, H.: tutela Minervae Navis, O.: vetus draconis, Pr.