patagium

Borrowed from Latin patagīum (“gilded edging of a woman's tunic”), from an unattested Ancient Greek παταγεῖον (patageîon), perhaps from πάταγος (pátagos, “clatter”).

• Commonly irregular IPA^(key): /pəˈteɪd͡ʒi.əm/,^[1] also IPA^(key): /pætəˈd͡ʒaɪəm/^[2] following the Latin

patagium (plural patagia)

1. The thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of a bat or of gliding mammals.
2. A similar membrane between the body and wing of a bird.
3. One of the scales affixed to the pronotum of lepidopterous insects; the tegula.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παταγεῖον (patageîon).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pa.taˈɡiː.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pa.t̪aˈd͡ʒiː.um]

patagīum n (genitive patagīī); second declension

1. A gold edging on a Roman tunic

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “patagium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• patagium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.