tegimen

Latin

Alternative forms

• tegmen, tegumen

Etymology

From tegō (“clothe”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛ.ɡɪ.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛː.d͡ʒi.men]

Noun

tegimen n (genitive tegiminis); third declension

1. cover, covering, protection; tegument
   • Vergilius; found in both Georgicon (Book IV, line 566) and Eclogae (Book I, line 1)

     Sub tegmine fāgī.

     Under the cover of a beech tree.
     More commonly rendered: Under the shade of a beech tree

Declension

Often syncopated in oblique cases, dropping the -i- after teg-.

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	tegimen	tegimina
genitive	tegiminis	tegiminum
dative	tegiminī	tegiminibus
accusative	tegimen	tegimina
ablative	tegimine	tegiminibus
vocative	tegimen	tegimina

Related terms

• tegimentum

References

• “tegimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tegimen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tegimen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.