tentorium
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English
Etymology
Early 19th century: from Latin tentorium, literally ‘tent’.
Noun
tentorium (plural tentoria or tentoriums)
- The framework of internal supports (a false endoskeleton) within an arthropod head, formed by ingrowths of the exoskeleton called apophyses.
- 1906, Milett T. Thompson, Alimentary Canal of the Mosquito: (Anopheles Punctipennis):
- In the female of Culex the tentoria arise in front of the border of the occipital foramen and ascend at an angle of twenty-five degrees with the floor of the head.
- (anatomy) The tentorium cerebelli, an extension of the dura mater that separates the cerebellum from the inferior portion of the occipital lobes.
- 1961, Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry, page 345:
- Four dogs with intact tentoriums survived 6 weeks and 8 with sectioned tentoriums survived the same period of time.
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From tendō (“to stretch out, to spread out”) + -tōrium (suffix forming nouns denoting places or instruments).
Noun
tentōrium n (genitive tentōriī or tentōrī); second declension
- tent
- Synonym: tabernaculum
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tentōrium | tentōria |
| genitive | tentōriī tentōrī1 |
tentōriōrum |
| dative | tentōriō | tentōriīs |
| accusative | tentōrium | tentōria |
| ablative | tentōriō | tentōriīs |
| vocative | tentōrium | tentōria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “tentorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tentorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tentorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tentorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tentorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers