tego

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See also: teĝo and tęgo

English

Noun

tego (plural tegos)

  1. Alternative form of toego

Esperanto

Etymology

From tegi +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

Noun

tego (accusative singular tegon, plural tegoj, accusative plural tegojn)

  1. sheet, pillow case, bedtick

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tegō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (to cover with a roof). Cognate with English thatch and English deck.

Pronunciation

Verb

tegō (present infinitive tegere, perfect active tēxī, supine tēctum); third conjugation

  1. to cover; to clothe
    Synonyms: vēlō, obvolvō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, abscondō, abdō, cooperiō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, opprimō, mergō
    Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō, patefaciō
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.5–7:
      Ante mare et terrās et quod tegit omnia caelum
      ūnus erat tōtō nātūrae vultus in orbe,
      quem dīxēre chaos:
      Before the sea and the lands and the sky that covers over all things,
      there was one face of nature in the whole world,
      which they called chaos:
  2. (transferred) to conceal, hide, protect
    Synonyms: salvō, tūtor, vindicō, cū̆stōdiō, sospitō, teneō, adimō, prōtegō, dēfendō, sustineō, adsum, ēripiō, arceō, tueor, mūniō, servō, prohibeō
    Antonyms: immineō, īnstō, obiectō
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.123:
      “Diffugient comitēs et nocte tegentur opācā .”
      “Their retinue will scatter, and will have been hidden in murky darkness .”
      (Juno will send a storm to conceal the union of Dido and Aeneas.)

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  • tego”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tego”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • not to betray one's feelings by one's looks: sententiam fronte celare, tegere

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.ɡɔ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡɔ
  • Syllabification: te‧go

Pronoun

tego m

  1. inflection of ten:
    1. genitive singular
    2. animate accusative singular
    3. personal accusative singular

Pronoun

tego n

  1. genitive singular of to

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

tego class IX (plural tego class X)

  1. a (false) sexually transmitted disease said to be contracted by adultery
  2. a board used for circumcision

Swedish

Verb

tego

  1. (pre-1940) plural past indicative of tiga

Anagrams

Ternate

Pronunciation

Verb

tego (Jawi تىݢو)

  1. (intransitive) to sit
    tego toma kurusito sit on a chair
  2. (intransitive) to live, reside
  3. (intransitive) to be situated
    Kie Gamalama itego toma kie makonoraMount Gamalama sits in the center of the island

Conjugation

Conjugation of tego
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st totego fotego mitego
2nd notego nitego
3rd Masculine otego itego, yotego
Feminine motego
Neuter itego
- archaic

References

  • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *teko. Equivalent to tehta +‎ -o.

Noun

tego

  1. deed, act
  2. action
  3. task
  4. work, product
  5. (as a modifier in compounds) artificial, man-made, prosthetic

Inflection

Inflection of tego (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing. tego
genitive sing. tegon
partitive sing. tegod
partitive plur. tegoid
singular plural
nominative tego tegod
accusative tegon tegod
genitive tegon tegoiden
partitive tegod tegoid
essive-instructive tegon tegoin
translative tegoks tegoikš
inessive tegos tegoiš
elative tegospäi tegoišpäi
illative tegoho tegoihe
adessive tegol tegoil
ablative tegolpäi tegoilpäi
allative tegole tegoile
abessive tegota tegoita
comitative tegonke tegoidenke
prolative tegodme tegoidme
approximative I tegonno tegoidenno
approximative II tegonnoks tegoidennoks
egressive tegonnopäi tegoidennopäi
terminative I tegohosai tegoihesai
terminative II tegolesai tegoilesai
terminative III tegossai
additive I tegohopäi tegoihepäi
additive II tegolepäi tegoilepäi

Derived terms

References

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *teko. Equivalent to tegemä +‎ -o.

Noun

tego (genitive teo, partitive teko)

  1. deed, act
  2. action
  3. fact

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms