The corpus record — Latin

tegulum

tegulum · n

a covering

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

tĕgŭlum — Lewis & Short

tĕgŭlum, i, n.tego,

I a covering, roof, thatch (very rare): tegulo aquaticarum harundinum domos suas operiunt, Plin. 16, 36, 64, § 156: scirpi fragiles ad tegulum tegetesque, id. 16, 37, 70, § 178.

In the wild

tegulo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.16.p89
Tegulo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.36.p2

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.