tegmento

Esperanto

Ligna tegmento de Täby kyrka en Täby, Svedio

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tegmentum, from tegō (“to cover, clothe, protect”). First attested in Zamenhof's Unua Libro (1887).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /teɡˈmento/
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  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Syllabification: teg‧men‧to

Noun

tegmento (accusative singular tegmenton, plural tegmentoj, accusative plural tegmentojn)

  1. (architecture) roof

References

  1. ^ Neves; Pabst (2022), “tegmento”, in Historia Vortaro de Esperanto, →ISBN, page 828

Latin

Noun

tegmentō

  1. dative/ablative singular of tegmentum