tegument
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See also: tégument
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Also in late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tegumentum (“a cover”), from tegere (“to cover, clothe”, verb) + -mentum (suffix forming nouns). Compare integument.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tegument (plural teguments)
- (uncommon) Something which covers; a covering or coating.
- 1658: But in the Homericall Urne of Patroclus, whatever was the solid Tegument, we finde the immediate covering to be a purple peece of silk — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21)
- (anatomy, obsolete) A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument.
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Translations[edit]
something which covers
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French tégument, from Latin tegumentum.
Noun[edit]
tegument n (plural tegumente)
Declension[edit]
Declension of tegument
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) tegument | tegumentul | (niște) tegumente | tegumentele |
genitive/dative | (unui) tegument | tegumentului | (unor) tegumente | tegumentelor |
vocative | tegumentule | tegumentelor |
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)teg- (cover)
- English terms borrowed from Latin
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