The corpus record — Latin

Tegillum

Tegillum · n

a small covering

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Where it lives

Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k

What it meant

tĕgillum — Lewis & Short

tĕgillum, i, n.dim.tegulum,

I a small covering, a hood or cowl, Plaut. Rud. 2, 7, 18; Varr. ap. Non. 179, 4; cf.: tegillum cuculiunculum ex scirpo factum, Fest. p. 366 Müll.

In the wild

Tegillum Plautus, Rudens 2.7

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.