tectum

From Latin tēctum (“roof”), from tegō (“I cover”), cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos, “roof; any covered room of a house”). Doublet of tect.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛk.təm/

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tectum (plural tecta)

1. (neuroanatomy) The dorsal portion of the midbrain of vertebrates; in mammals, containing the superior colliculus and inferior colliculus
2. The interconnected outer surface of a spore.

• infratectum

• tegmentum
• periaqueductal grey

• Bear et al. Neuroscience, Exploring the Brain Co. 2001, Lippincot Williams and Wilkins
• “tectum”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

From tegō (“I cover”), cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos, “roof; any covered room of a house”).

If cognacy with Umbrian tettome (acc. sg. with postposition) is accepted, one can reconstruct Proto-Italic *tektom.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈteːk.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ɛk.t̪um]

tēctum n (genitive tēctī); second declension

1. roof, ceiling
2. canopy
3. refuge, shelter

   Synonyms: perfugium, asȳlum, refugium, receptāculum, latebra, dēverticulum

4. (figuratively) house, dwelling, abode

   Synonyms: domus, domicilium, habitātiō

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• tēctulum

• tēctūra
• tegō

• “tectum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tectum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tactum in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti.
• "tectum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to enter the house: tectum subire