Latin

Alternative forms

• tegmen
• tegumen

Noun

tegimen n ‎(genitive tegiminis); third declension

1. cover, covering, protection
   • Vergilius; found in both Georgicon (Book IV, line 566) and Eclogae (Book I, line 1)

     Sub tegmine fagi.

     Under the cover of a beech tree.
     More commonly rendered: Under the shade of a beech tree

Inflection

Often syncopated in oblique cases, dropping the -i- after teg-. Third declension neuter.

References

• tegimen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tegimen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tegimen”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.