tugurium

Latin

Alternative forms

  • tegurium, tigurium

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (to cover with a roof) (whence tegō). Cognate with Ancient Greek στέγω (stégō), Old Norse þekja (to cover), Old English þeccean (thatch), Dutch dekken, German decken (to cover, put under roof), Old Irish tech (house), Welsh (house).

Pronunciation

Noun

tugurium n (genitive tuguriī or tugurī); second declension

  1. a hut, cottage, shack; any primitive dwelling

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tugurium tuguria
Genitive tuguriī
tugurī1
tuguriōrum
Dative tuguriō tuguriīs
Accusative tugurium tuguria
Ablative tuguriō tuguriīs
Vocative tugurium tuguria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: tuguri
  • Italian: tugurio
  • Portuguese: tugúrio
  • Spanish: tugurio

References

  • tugurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tugurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tugurium 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)
  • tugurium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • tugurium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tugurium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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