The corpus record — Latin

tegumentum

tegumentum · n

a covering

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Oratione 2 · 4.46/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 2 · 1.25/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 1 · 0.61/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 22 1 · 0.58/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 1 · 0.57/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.43/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tĕgŭmentum — Lewis & Short

tĕgŭmentum (collat. forms tĕgĭ-mentum and tegmentum), i, n.tego,

I a covering, cover.

I Lit. (class.; cf. tegmen): tegumenta corporum vel texta vel suta, Cic. N. D. 2, 60, 150; so, tegumentum, id. Fin. 5, 11, 32; Liv. 1, 43, 2; 9, 19, 7; 9, 40, 3; 22, 1, 3; Sen. Cons. ad Helv. 8, 2; id. Ep. 90, 17; Suet. Calig. 55 fin.: scutisque tegimenta detrudere, Caes. B. G. 2, 21; so, tegimenta, id. B. C. 2, 9; 3, 44; 3, 62; 3, 63: palpebrae quae sunt tegmenta oculorum, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 142: tegumenta, armor, Vulg. 1 Macc. 4, 6. — *

II Trop.: istaec mihi ego semper habui aetati tegumentum meae, Ne, etc., a defence, protection, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 32 dub. (Ritschl and Fleck. integumentum).

In the wild

tegumenta Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.1.43.2
tegumenta Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.150
tegumentis Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2.8.20.6
tegumentis Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.37.40.11
tegumenta Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 p64
tegumentum Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.9.19.7

6 of 26 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.