patagium

English

Labelled sections of the patagium of a Townsend's big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin patagīum (“gilded edging of a woman's tunic”), from Ancient Greek παταγεῖον (patageîon).

Pronunciation

• Commonly irregular IPA^(key): /pəˈteɪd͡ʒi.əm/, also IPA^(key): /pætəˈd͡ʒaɪəm/ following the Latin

Noun

patagium (plural patagia)

1. The thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of a bat or of gliding mammals.
2. A similar membrane between the body and wing of a bird.
3. One of the scales affixed to the pronotum of lepidopterous insects; the tegula.

Related terms

• brachiopatagium
• cruropatagium
• dactylopatagium
• parapatagium
• plagiopatagium
• propatagium
• uropatagium

Translations

thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of gliding mammals

• German: Patagium n, Flughaut f, Spannhaut f, Flatterhaut f, Gleithaut f
• Italian: patagio m
• Korean: 비막 bimak
• Polish: błona lotna f
• Spanish: patagio m
• Volapük: flitaskinäd (vo)

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παταγεῖον (patageîon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pa.taˈɡiː.um/, [pät̪äˈɡiːʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.taˈd͡ʒi.um/, [pät̪äˈd͡ʒiːum]

Noun

patagīum n (genitive patagīī); second declension

1. A gold edging on a Roman tunic

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	patagīum	patagīa
Genitive	patagīī	patagīōrum
Dative	patagīō	patagīīs
Accusative	patagīum	patagīa
Ablative	patagīō	patagīīs
Vocative	patagīum	patagīa

References

• “patagium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• patagium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.