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Learn Hardcore Latin: tegere - to cover

Hardcore Latin
/Lesson 40
/tegere

tegere

Word

tegere

Meaning

to cover

Part of speech

verb

Pronunciation

Course

Lesson

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 saepes 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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