tugurium

Latin

Alternative forms

• tegurium, tigurium

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover with a roof”) (whence tegō). Cognate with Ancient Greek στέγω (stégō), Old Norse þekja (“to cover”), Old English þeccean (“thatch”), Dutch dekken, German decken (“to cover, put under roof”), Old Irish tech (“house”), Welsh tŷ (“house”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tuˈɡu.ri.um/, [t̪ʊˈɡʊriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tuˈɡu.ri.um/, [t̪uˈɡuːrium]

Noun

tugurium n (genitive tuguriī or tugurī); second declension

1. a hut, cottage, shack; any primitive dwelling

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tugurium	tuguria
Genitive	tuguriī tugurī1	tuguriōrum
Dative	tuguriō	tuguriīs
Accusative	tugurium	tuguria
Ablative	tuguriō	tuguriīs
Vocative	tugurium	tuguria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• tuguriolum
• tuguriunculum

Descendants

• → Catalan: tuguri
• → Italian: tugurio
• → Portuguese: tugúrio
• → Spanish: tugurio

References

• “tugurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tugurium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tugurium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tugurium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tugurium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tugurium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin