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Latin
Etymology
From tegō (“clothe”) + -men.
Pronunciation
Noun
tegumen n (genitive teguminis); third declension
- Alternative form of tegimen
Usage notes
In the oblique cases the stem is usually as for tegmen though the following oblique inflections are also found.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
References
- “tegumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tegumen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tegumen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.