tegere

to cover

Usages of tegere

• Pater pallium vetus de sella detrahit et cubile tegit.: Father pulls the old cloak from the chair and covers the bed.
• Soror parvum pulvinum sub capite fratris ponit et eum pallio tegit.: The sister puts a small pillow under her brother’s head and covers him with a cloak.
• Hedera super murum crescit et fenestram paene tegit.: Ivy grows over the wall and almost covers the window.
• Haec sepes densior est quam illa, et hortum melius tegit.: This hedge is thicker than that one, and covers the garden better.
• Cilium oculum tegit.: The eyelid covers the eye.
• Eclipsis lunam tegit.: The eclipse covers the moon.
• Vix nox inceperat, cum eclipsis lunam texit.: Night had hardly begun when the eclipse covered the moon.
• Cometen videre possumus, dummodo nubes caelum non tegant.: We can see the comet, provided that clouds do not cover the sky.
• Galerus umerum retiarii tegit.: The shoulder guard covers the net-fighter's shoulder.
• Ocrea crus Thraecis tegit.: The greave covers the Thracian-style gladiator's leg.
• Velarium adeo totum amphitheatrum tegit ut familia gladiatoria in umbra sedeat.: The awning covers the whole amphitheater so thoroughly that the gladiatorial troupe sits in the shade.
• Velarium podium et spectatores a sole tegit.: The awning protects the raised platform and the spectators from the sun.
• Tenebrae viam tegunt.: The darkness covers the road.

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