Searchable Lemmata: tegumen (L), tegmen (L).
Alternate Forms: tegimen, tegmines.
1(n.)
Textile;
in general, a covering, referring variously to cloths, clothing, shelters or roofing materials, etc.(ante 1100 - ante 1500 ?)
2. Ealswa gað hoc carmen þis leoð, crimen leahter, examen swearm oððe dom, limen oferslege oððe þerexwold, semen sæd, gluten lim ET CETERA; solamen frofer, foramen ðyrl, regimen reccendom, tegimen oððe <tegmen> wæfels, specimen hiw, acumen eagena scearpnys oððe isenes, flumen flod, lumen leoht, munimen ymbtrymming oððe fæstnys, molimen orþanc oððe syrwung ET CETERA.
[DOE ÆGram (028500 (40.13))]
3. Augustinus dixit uestis autem tibi pura circumdetur non ad pulchritudinem sed propter necessarium tegumentum id est indumentum ne dum exquisitis id est pretiosis indumentis uestieris alteram turpitudinem sumas sæde reaf soðlice þe clæne si abutangedon na to fægernysse ac for nedbehefe oferhelincge þæt na þænne begytenum reafum þu byst gescrydd oþre fylþe nime.
[DOE LibSc (137400 (43.6))]
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
1b(n.)
Garment;
vestment; general name.(ante 1100)
1. De diversitate et nominibus vestimentorum. Diversitas vestimentorum: tegmen, tegumen, indumentum, vestimentum, et reliqua. Tegmen dictum eo quod tegat membra; sicut tegumen tecta, quae tegunt corpora.
[DOE ISID. Etym. (19,22,1)]
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
1c(n.)
Accessory;
covering or wrap.(ante 1100)
2. Swa swa ðu mænifyldst mildheortnesse þine god sunu witodlice manna on helunge fiðera þinra hihtað quemadmodum multiplicasti misericordiam tuam deus, Filii autem hominum in tegmine alarum tuarum sperabunt.
[DOE PsGlK (Sisam) (049900 (35.8))]
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
Definite, Classical Latin; derived from the verb tegere 'to cover' (the same root lies behind theca, q.v.).
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
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