LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · neuterthird declension

tegimen

tegimen n (genitive tegiminis)
Classical[ˈtɛ.ɡɪ.mɛn]Ecclesiastical[ˈtɛː.d͡ʒi.men]
tegumen

Meaning

  1. neutercover, covering, protection; tegument
    Sub tegmine fāgī.Under the cover of a beech tree. More commonly rendered: Under the shade of a beech treeVergilius; found in both Georgicon (Book IV, line 566) and Eclogae (Book I, line 1)

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Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativetegimentegimina
tegmina, tegumina
genitivetegiminis
tegminis, teguminis		tegiminum
tegminum, teguminum
dativetegiminī
tegminī, teguminī		tegiminibus
tegminibus, teguminibus
accusativetegimentegimina
tegmina, tegumina
ablativetegimine
tegmine, tegumine		tegiminibus
tegminibus, teguminibus
vocativetegimentegimina
tegmina, tegumina

tĕgĭmen, tĕgŭmen, and tegmen (in
I. obliq. cas. usu. syncop. tegminis, etc.), n. tego, a covering, cover (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; in Cic. in prose only once, as a transl. from the Greek; syn.: operculum, integumentum): mihi (Anacharsi) amictui est Scythicum tegimen, Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 90: tegimen direpta leoni Pellis erat, Ov. M. 3, 52; so, tegimen, id. ib. 1, 672; id. A. A. 3, 112; Sil. 1, 402; Sen. Q. N. 6, 25; Tac. A. 2, 21: consertum tegumen spinis, Verg. A. 3, 594; so, tegumen, Liv. 1, 20, 4; 4, 39, 3; Col. 7, 4, 4: textile tegmen, Lucr. 5, 1350; so id. 3, 649; Verg. A. 7, 666; 7, 742; Luc. 9, 771; Liv. 5, 38, 8; Quint. 9, 4, 4; Auct. B. Afr. 72: tegmina membrorum, Col. 3, 10, 12: vites opacare tegminibus, id. 5, 5, 15: removebitur hujus Tegminis officium, of the shield, Ov. M. 12, 92: pedum, i. e. shoes, Col. 1, 8, 18; Amm. 22, 9, 11.—Of the husk: grani, Col. 10, 243; cf.: hordea ... exue de paleā tegminibusque suis, Ov. Med. Fac. 54. — Poet. sub caeli tegmine, the vault of heaven, Lucr. 1, 988; so id. 2, 662; 5, 1016; Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 44, 112: fluminis, icy covering, Laev. ap. Gell. 19, 7, 15. — With obj. gen.: ardoris, Vulg Ecclus. 34, 19.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-der. Proto-Italic *tegō Latin tegō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Italic *-mn̥ Latin -men Latin tegimen From tegō (“clothe”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).

In English words that came into English from tegimen

  • tegmentegmen

Quick answers

What does tegimen mean in Latin?
tegimen, a noun, means “cover, covering, protection; tegument”.
What is the genitive of tegimen?
The genitive singular is tegiminis. tegimen is neuter, third declension.
How do you pronounce tegimen?
In classical Latin, [ˈtɛ.ɡɪ.mɛn]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈtɛː.d͡ʒi.men].