tego

tego

See also: teĝo and tęgo

English

Noun

tego (plural tegos)

  1. Alternative form of toego.

Esperanto

Etymology

From tegi +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈteɡo/
  • Rhymes: -eɡo
  • Syllabification: te‧go

Noun

tego (accusative singular tegon, plural tegoj, accusative plural tegojn)

  1. sheet, pillow case, bedtick

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

    From Proto-Italic *tegō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (to cover with a roof). Cognate with English thatch and English deck.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    tegō (present infinitive tegere, perfect active tēxī, supine tēctum); third conjugation

    1. to cover; to clothe
      Synonyms: vēlō, obvolvō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, abscondō, abdō, cooperiō, comprimō, prōtegō, premō, opprimō, mergō
      Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō, patefaciō
      • 8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 1.5–7:
        Ante mare et terrās et quod tegit omnia caelum
        ūnus erat tōtō nātūrae vultus in orbe,
        quem dīxēre chaos: []
        Before the sea and the lands and the sky that covers over all things,
        there was one face of nature in the whole world,
        which they called chaos: []
    2. (transferred) to conceal, hide, protect
      Synonyms: salvō, tūtor, vindicō, cū̆stōdiō, sospitō, teneō, adimō, prōtegō, dēfendō, sustineō, adsum, ēripiō, arceō, tueor, mūniō, servō, prohibeō
      Antonyms: immineō, īnstō, obiectō
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.123:
        “Diffugient comitēs et nocte tegentur opācā [...].”
        “Their retinue will scatter, and [everything] will have been hidden in murky darkness [...].”
        (Juno will send a storm to conceal the union of Dido and Aeneas.)

    Conjugation

    Derived terms

    References

    • tego”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • tego”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • not to betray one's feelings by one's looks: sententiam fronte celare, tegere

    Polish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.ɡɔ/
    • Audio 1:(file)
    • Audio 2:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɛɡɔ
    • Syllabification: te‧go

    Pronoun

    tego m

    1. inflection of ten:
      1. genitive singular
      2. animate accusative singular
      3. personal accusative singular

    Pronoun

    tego n

    1. genitive singular of to

    Swahili

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    tego class IX (plural tego class X)

    1. a (false) sexually transmitted disease said to be contracted by adultery
    2. a board used for circumcision

    Swedish

    Verb

    tego

    1. (pre-1940) plural past indicative of tiga

    Anagrams

    Ternate

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [ˈte.ɡo]

    Verb

    tego (Jawi تىݢو)

    1. (intransitive) to sit
      tego toma kurusito sit on a chair
    2. (intransitive) to live, reside
    3. (intransitive) to be situated
      Kie Gamalama itego toma kie makonoraMount Gamalama sits in the center of the island

    Conjugation

    Conjugation of tego
    singular plural
    inclusive exclusive
    1st person totego fotego mitego
    2nd person notego nitego
    3rd
    person
    masculine otego itego
    yotego (archaic)
    feminine motego
    neuter itego

    References

    • Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890), Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
    • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

    Veps

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    From Proto-Finnic *teko. Equivalent to tehta +‎ -o.

    Noun

    tego

    1. deed, act
    2. action
    3. task
    4. work, product
    5. (as a modifier in compounds) artificial, man-made, prosthetic

    Inflection

    Inflection of tego (inflection type 1/ilo)
    nominative sing. tego
    genitive sing. tegon
    partitive sing. tegod
    partitive plur. tegoid
    singular plural
    nominative tego tegod
    accusative tegon tegod
    genitive tegon tegoiden
    partitive tegod tegoid
    essive-instructive tegon tegoin
    translative tegoks tegoikš
    inessive tegos tegoiš
    elative tegospäi tegoišpäi
    illative tegoho tegoihe
    adessive tegol tegoil
    ablative tegolpäi tegoilpäi
    allative tegole tegoile
    abessive tegota tegoita
    comitative tegonke tegoidenke
    prolative tegodme tegoidme
    approximative I tegonno tegoidenno
    approximative II tegonnoks tegoidennoks
    egressive tegonnopäi tegoidennopäi
    terminative I tegohosai tegoihesai
    terminative II tegolesai tegoilesai
    terminative III tegossai
    additive I tegohopäi tegoihepäi
    additive II tegolepäi tegoilepäi

    Derived terms

    • aigtego
    • arvtego
    • azjtego
    • heinäntego
    • hüväntego
    • kerdtego
    • lugutego
    • tegonsatuz
    • tegopä
    • tegosatuz
    • tegotukad
    • tegovägi
    • tervehtoituztego
    • uradindtego
    • urohontego
    • vigatego

    References

    Võro

    Etymology

    From Proto-Finnic *teko. Equivalent to tegemä +‎ -o.

    Noun

    tego (genitive teo, partitive teko)

    1. deed, act
    2. action
    3. fact

    Inflection

    This noun needs an inflection-table template.

    Derived terms