tego

English

Noun

tego (plural tegos)

1. Alternative form of toego

Esperanto

Etymology

From tegi +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -eɡo
• Hyphenation: teg‧o

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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.ɡoː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.ɡo/,

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. to protect

   Synonyms: salvō, tūtor, vindicō, cū̆stōdiō, sospitō, teneō, adimō, prōtegō, dēfendō, sustineō, adsum, ēripiō, arceō, tueor, mūniō, servō, prohibeō

   Antonyms: immineō, īnstō, obiectō

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

• toga
• tugurium

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/

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• 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

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Noun

tego (n class, plural tego)

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

• toge

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

tego (Jawi تىݢو)

1. (intransitive) to sit

   tego toma kurusi ― to sit on a chair

2. (intransitive) to live, reside
3. (intransitive) to be situated

   Kie Gamalama itego toma kie makonora ― Mount Gamalama sits in the center of the island

Conjugation

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

Veps

Alternative forms

• teko

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

Derived terms

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “акт, действие, деяние, жест, задание, искусственный, поступок, произведение, происшествие, протез”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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

• tegonimi
• tegosyna