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English
Noun
tego (plural tegos)
- Alternative form of toego
Esperanto
Etymology
From tegi + -o.
Pronunciation
Noun
tego (accusative singular tegon, plural tegoj, accusative plural tegojn)
- 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
- 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:
- (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/
- Rhymes: -ɛɡɔ
- Syllabification: te‧go
Pronoun
tego m
- inflection of ten:
- genitive singular
- animate accusative singular
- personal accusative singular
Pronoun
tego n
- genitive singular of to
Swahili
Pronunciation
Noun
tego class IX (plural tego class X)
- a (false) sexually transmitted disease said to be contracted by adultery
- a board used for circumcision
Swedish
Verb
tego
- (pre-1940) plural past indicative of tiga
Anagrams
Ternate
Pronunciation
Verb
tego (Jawi تىݢو)
- (intransitive) to sit
- tego toma kurusi ― to sit on a chair
- (intransitive) to live, reside
- (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
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *teko. Equivalent to tehta + -o.
Noun
tego
- deed, act
- action
- task
- work, product
- (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)
- deed, act
- action
- fact
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms