tegument

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See also: tégument

English

Etymology

Also in late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tegumentum (“a cover”), from tegere (“to cover, clothe”, verb) +‎ -mentum (suffix forming nouns). Compare integument.

Pronunciation

Noun

tegument (plural teguments)

  1. (uncommon) Something which covers; a covering or coating.
    • 1658: But in the Homericall Urne of Patroclus, whatever was the solid Tegument, we finde the immediate covering to be a purple peece of silk — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21)
  2. (anatomy, obsolete) A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument.

Derived terms

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tégument, from Latin tegumentum.

Noun

tegument n (plural tegumente)

  1. tegument

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative tegument tegumentul tegumente tegumentele
genitive-dative tegument tegumentului tegumente tegumentelor
vocative tegumentule tegumentelor
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