tegumen

Latin

Etymology

From tegō (“clothe”) +‎ -men.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tegumen n (genitive teguminis); third declension

1. alternative form of tegimen

Usage notes

In the oblique cases the stem is usually as for tegmen though the following oblique inflections are also found.

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	tegumen	tegumina
genitive	teguminis	teguminum
dative	teguminī	teguminibus
accusative	tegumen	tegumina
ablative	tegumine	teguminibus
vocative	tegumen	tegumina

References

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