tegmenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈtɛɡ.mən/

名詞

tegmen (plural tegmens or tegmina)

1. (biology) A covering or integument, usually referring to a thin layer or membrane in an organism.
2. (botany) An integument such as the inner membrane of the coat of a seed.
3. (anatomy) A covering such as the thin layer of bone in the roof of the middle ear of mammals.
4. (entomology) In insects such as winged cockroaches and locusts, the stiff, membranous fore wings; in many species they are not primarily used for flight, but serve as protective covering for the delicate hind wings, which are the main organs of flight. The more heavily armoured fore-wings of most beetles are called elytra, not tegmina.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈteɡ.men/, [ˈt̪ɛɡmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈteɡ.men/, [ˈt̪ɛɡmen]

名詞

tegmen n (genitive tegminis); third declension

1. Alternative form of tegimen

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

参照

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