tegus – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of tegus

Noun: tegus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter Declension: Third

Nominative

Singulartegus
Pluraltegora

Genitive

Singulartegoris
Pluraltegorum

Dative

Singulartegorī
Pluraltegoribus

Accusative

Singulartegus
Pluraltegora

Ablative

Singulartegore
Pluraltegoribus

Vocative

Singulartegus
Pluraltegora

Sample Sentences

  • Di immortales, iam ut ego collos praetruncabo tĕgŏrĭbus,
  • quanta pernis pestis veniet, quanta labes larido,
  • quanta sumini absumedo, quanta callo calamitas,
  • quanta laniis lassitudo, quanta porcinariis. (Immortal gods, how I will chop the necks off the backs in a moment! What havoc will fall on the ham, what loss on the lard, what utter consumption on the udder, what misfortune on the meat, what sleepiness on the slaughterers and pork-butchers!) [c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 4.3.2–5 (trochaic septenarius)]
  • Adveniens deturbavit totum cum carne carnarium:
  • a͞rrĭpŭi͞t glădĭu͞m, pra͞etru͞ncāvi͞t trĭbŭs tē̆gŏrĭbū̆s gla͞ndĭa;
  • aulas calicesque omnes confregit, nisi quae modiales erant. (When he arrived he threw down the whole meat stand with the meat. He grabbed a sword and chopped the sweet-breads off three meat-joints. He smashed all pots and dishes to pieces, except those that were bucket-sized.) [c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 4.4.7–9 (iambic octonarius)]
  • Aeschrodora, tu quae amicos tibi habes lenonum aemulos
  • lanios, qui, item ut nos iurando, iure malo male quaerunt rem, audi:
  • nĭsĭ ca͞rnārĭă trĭă grăvĭdă tegŏrĭbŭs ŏnĕre ūbĕri hŏdĭē
  • mihi erunt, cras te quasi Dircam olim, ut memorant, duo gnati Iovis
  • devinxere ad taurum, item ego te distringam ad carnarium;
  • id tibi profecto taurus fiet. (Aeschrodora, you who have the butchers, the pimps’ rivals, as boyfriends, who just like us acquire money in a nasty way through perjury, listen: unless I have three meat racks heavy with carcasses of large size today, I’ll tie you to a meat rack tomorrow, the way they say the two sons of Jupiter once bound Dirce onto a bull. This will become the bull for you.) [c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 198 (trochaic octonarius)]
  • tegus suis ab eo quod eo tegitur. perna a pede. sueris a nomine eius. offula ab offa, minima suere. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 5.110]
  • Terga hominis tantum, singulariter tergum facit. quadrupedum erit tergus, pluraliter tergora, id est coria. tegus quoque invenio dici et esse eius plurale tegora. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [Flavius Caper, De Orthographia 99.2]

Etymology

Archaic alternative form of tergus n (“back; hide”). Possibly originally a distinct word that became blended with tergum. Alternatively, if tergus was original, tegus, tegor- might be a by-form derived by dissimilative loss of the first /r/ in tergor-.

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