tegula

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin tegula (“a tile”), from tegō (“to cover”). Doublet of tile. === Noun === tegula (plural tegulae) (entomology) A small sclerite situated above the base of the costal vein in the wings of various insects, and attached to the anterolateral portion of the mesonotum. (archaeology) A flat Roman roof tile with raised edges, joined together by an imbrex. (malacology) Any sea snail in the genus Tegula. ==== Derived terms ==== subtegula ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== Tegula (insect anatomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Imbrex and tegula on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Tugela, guelta == Interlingua == === Noun === tegula (plural tegulas) tile ==== Related terms ==== tegular == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover”). By surface analysis, tegō (“to cover”) +‎ -ula. For the meaning development compare German Kachel. Though the sense “frying-pan” has been said to be derived from Ancient Greek τάγηνον (tágēnon), τήγανον (tḗganon), this is formally difficult; the distinction between it and “rooftile” may thus be seen as unfounded. The long vowel is difficult to explain, but according to some authors it is an artifact of early simplification of the cluster *gdʰ in *teg-dʰlom (see -bulum for the suffix); compare rēgula. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Contrast the later formation tegulum, with a short vowel. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈteː.ɡʊ.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtɛː.ɡu.la] === Noun === tēgula f (genitive tēgulae); first declension (architecture, roofing, chiefly in the plural) a large, flat and heavy roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the curved and smaller imbrex Coordinate term: imbrex (transferred sense) a tile used to bake food upon it (baking tile, frying pan) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== asinus in tēgulīs ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “tēgulae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tegula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “tegula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. "tegula", 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) “tegula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “tegula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin Schuchardt, Hugo (1918), Die romanischen Lehnwörter im Berberischen (Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie der Wissenschaften; 188, IVth treatise)‎[1] (in German), Wien: In Kommission bei Alfred Hölder, page 57