tectum

== English == === Etymology === From Latin tēctum (“roof”), from tegō (“I cover”), cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos, “roof; any covered room of a house”). Doublet of tect. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtɛk.təm/ === Noun === tectum (plural tecta) (neuroanatomy) The dorsal portion of the midbrain of vertebrates; in mammals, containing the superior colliculus and inferior colliculus The interconnected outer surface of a spore. ==== Derived terms ==== infratectum ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== tegmentum periaqueductal grey === References === Bear et al. Neuroscience, Exploring the Brain Co. 2001, Lippincot Williams and Wilkins “tectum”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == Latin == === Etymology === From tegō (“I cover”), cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos, “roof; any covered room of a house”). If cognacy with Umbrian tettome (acc. sg. with postposition) is accepted, one can reconstruct Proto-Italic *tektom. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈteːk.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtɛk.tum] === Noun === tēctum n (genitive tēctī); second declension roof, ceiling canopy refuge, shelter Synonyms: perfugium, asȳlum, refugium, receptāculum, latebra, dēverticulum (figuratively) house, dwelling, abode Synonyms: domus, domicilium, habitātiō ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== tēctulum ==== Related terms ==== tēctūra tegō ==== Descendants ==== === References === “tectum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tectum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers tactum in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti. "tectum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.