tegimen Latin · revision 31929

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *(s)teg-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈtɛ.ɡɪ.mɛn]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈtɛː.d͡ʒi.men]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tegimen''' ''n'' (genitive tegiminis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The forms ''tegumen'' and ''tegmen'' are also used; in the oblique cases the short form ''tegminis'' is usual.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|tegō|-men|t1=to cover]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Georges 1913) De Vaan traces [[m|la|tegō]] to [[itc-pro|*teg-e/o-|t=to cover]] and [[ine-pro|*(s)teg-e/o-|t=to cover]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|στέγω|tr=stégō|t=to cover, keep off]], [[sga|teg|t=house]], [[lt|stógas|t=roof]] and [[non|þak|t=roof]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lucretius uses it of a woven garment;^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis & Short note that it is mostly poetic and post-Augustan, and that Cicero has it in prose only once, translating from Greek.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is any covering: Laevius has rivers frozen with a covering of onyx, and Virgil's Tityrus lies “under the cover of a spreading beech”.^(OLD 2012) It is applied to clothing and armour, as in Cicero's Anacharsis, whose clothing is a Scythian covering, to a shield, to the hide of an animal, as the lion skin in Virgil, and to the husk of grain or the skin of a fruit.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) Church Latin has shelter, covering, shield and protection.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ In medieval Latin it is a roof, roofing, a refuge, and figuratively a sham or pretext.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of a woven garment.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a Scythian garment.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the shade of a beech and of a lion skin.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of the husk of grain.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|covering]], cover.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Clothing, [[m|en|armour]]; a shield.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # The skin or hide of an animal; the husk of a seed or fruit.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' Shelter, protection.^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A roof; a refuge; a pretext, sham.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tego|alt=tegō]]

+ * [[tegumentum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}