tegumentum

• tegimentum, tegmentum

From tegere (“to cover, clothe”) +‎ -mentum (derivational suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛ.ɡʊˈmɛn.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪e.ɡuˈmɛn̪.t̪um]

tegumentum n (genitive tegumentī); second declension

1. cover, covering
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 2.21:

     Temporis tanta fuit exiguitas hostiumque tam paratus ad dimicandum animus ut non modo ad insignia accommodanda sed etiam ad galeas induendas scutisque tegimenta detrahenda tempus defuerit.

     Such was the shortness of the time, and so determined was the mind of the enemy on fighting, that time was wanting not only for affixing the military insignia, but even for putting on the helmets and drawing off the covers from the shields.

2. clothing
3. armour
4. shell or husk (of an animal, fruit etc.)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• integumentum
• tegumen

• → English: tegument
• → Esperanto: tegmento
• → French: tégument
• → Ido: tegumento
• → Italian: tegumento
• → Spanish: tegumento

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