Meaning

2 senses

  1. (uncommon)Something which covers; a covering or coating.

    1658: But in the Homericall Urne of Patroclus, whatever was the solid Tegument, we finde the immediate covering to be a purple peece of silk — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21)

    Bedeckung

  2. (obsolete)A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument.

    a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch

Translations

3 languages
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By meaning 1
something which covers:

Origin

Also in late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tegumentum (“a cover”), from tegere (“to

Also in late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tegumentum (“a cover”), from tegere (“to cover, clothe”, verb) + -mentum (suffix forming nouns). Compare integument.

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Forms

plural: teguments
Singulartegument
Pluralteguments

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch:skincutis

Word family

4 related words
Relatedintegument
Derivedtegumentaltegumentarytegumented

See also

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