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Latin
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Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover with a roof”) (whence tegō). Cognate with Ancient Greek στέγω (stégō), Old Norse þekja (“to cover”), Old English þeccean (“thatch”), Dutch dekken, German decken (“to cover, put under roof”), Old Irish tech (“house”), Welsh tŷ (“house”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tugurium n (genitive tuguriī or tugurī); second declension
- a hut, cottage, shack; any primitive dwelling
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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References
- “tugurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tugurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tugurium 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)
- tugurium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tugurium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “tugurium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin