tegumentum Latin · revision 33767

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *(s)teg-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [tɛ.ɡʊˈmɛn.tũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [te.ɡuˈmɛn.tum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tegumentum''' ''n'' (genitive tegumentī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also ''tegimentum'' and ''tegmentum''; the OLD enters it under ''tegimentum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|tegō|-mentum|t1=to cover]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) 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]], cognate with [[grc|στέγω|tr=stégō|t=to keep off, keep in]] and [[lt|stógas|t=roof]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler lists Plautus among its first sources.^(Köbler 2010) The OLD's earliest citations are Cicero, who calls the eyelids the coverings of the eyes, and Caesar, whose soldiers had no time to take the covers off their shields.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is any covering or protection.^(OLD 2012) Cicero speaks of coverings for the body, woven or sewn,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and of someone making a covering of feathers for the body.^(OLD 2012) Livy has a sponge worn as protection for the chest, and Curtius horsemen covered with plates of iron linked together.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder says nature gave other animals various coverings, shells, bark, hides, spines and fleeces.^(OLD 2012) Seneca says that against heat no covering is solid enough except the earth itself.^(OLD 2012) English [[m|en|tegument]] comes from it, first in the mid-15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the eyelids as coverings of the eyes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of the covers of shields.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of a sponge protecting the chest.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of the shells and hides of animals.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-15th century – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|tegument]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

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

+ # Clothing; [[m|en|armour]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The skin, shell or [[m|en|husk]] of an animal or fruit.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[integumentum]]

+ * [[tegumen]]

+ * [[tegō]]

+ * [[tegimen]]

+ * [[tēctum]]

+ * [[toga]]

+ * [[en|tegument]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}