tectus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of tegō (“cover; shelter”).

Participle

tēctus (feminine tēcta, neuter tēctum, comparative tectior); first/second-declension participle

1. Covered, concealed, hidden; having been covered, hidden or concealed
2. Sheltered, protected, guarded, defended; having been sheltered, protected, guarded or defended
3. covered as in roofed; having been covered, roofed
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.261–262:

     quae nunc aere vidēs, stipula tum tēcta vidērēs,
     et pariēs lentō vīmine textus erat.

     [A shrine] which now you see [covered] with copper, then you might see roofed with thatch, and a wall was woven with pliant wicker.
     (The ancient temple of Vesta (mythology).)

4. Reserved, cautious, secretive

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	tēctus	tēcta	tēctum		tēctī	tēctae	tēcta
genitive	tēctī	tēctae	tēctī		tēctōrum	tēctārum	tēctōrum
dative	tēctō	tēctae	tēctō		tēctīs
accusative	tēctum	tēctam	tēctum		tēctōs	tēctās	tēcta
ablative	tēctō	tēctā	tēctō		tēctīs
vocative	tēcte	tēcta	tēctum		tēctī	tēctae	tēcta

Descendants

• Middle English: tecte
  • English: tect

References

• “tectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "tectus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “tectus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to set fire to houses: ignem tectis inferre, subicere
    
  • to welcome to one's house (opp. to shut one's door against some one): tecto, (in) domum suam aliquem recipere (opp. prohibere aliquem tecto, domo)
    
  • to invite some one to one's house: invitare aliquem tecto ac domo or domum suam (Liv. 3. 14. 5)