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tegumentum

tegumentum

Latin

Noun

tegumentum n ‎(genitive tegumentī); second declension

cover, covering
clothing
armour
shell or husk (of an animal, fruit etc.)

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	tegumentum	tegumenta
genitive	tegumentī	tegumentōrum
dative	tegumentō	tegumentīs
accusative	tegumentum	tegumenta
ablative	tegumentō	tegumentīs
vocative	tegumentum	tegumenta

Descendants

Italian: tegumento

References

tegumentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tegumentum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.