tegimen

== Latin == === Alternative forms === tegmen, tegumen === Etymology === From tegō (“clothe”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtɛ.ɡɪ.mɛn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtɛː.d͡ʒi.men] === Noun === tegimen n (genitive tegiminis); third declension cover, covering, protection; tegument Vergilius; found in both Georgicon (Book IV, line 566) and Eclogae (Book I, line 1) Sub tegmine fāgī. Under the cover of a beech tree.More commonly rendered: Under the shade of a beech tree ==== Declension ==== Often syncopated in oblique cases, dropping the -i- after teg-. Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). ==== Related terms ==== tegimentum === 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 “tegimen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.