The corpus record — Latin

teges

teges · f

a covering

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Where it lives

Saturae 2 · 0.8/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

tĕgĕs — Lewis & Short

tĕgĕs, ĕtis, f.tego,

I a covering, mat: quae fiunt de cannabi, lino, junco, palmā, scirpo, ut funes, restes, tegetes, Varr. R. R. 1, 22, 1; so Col. 5, 5, 15; 12, 52, 8; Plin. 21, 18, 69, § 112; Mart. 11, 32, 2; 11, 56, 5; Juv. 6, 117; 7, 221 al.

In the wild

tegetes Propertius, Elegiae 4.5.69
tegetesque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.37.p4
tegete Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.14.p3
tegetes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.18.p1
tegetibusque Martial, Epigrammata 6.39.4
tegetesque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.11.p3

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.