patagium
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin patagīum (“gilded edging of a woman's tunic”), from an unattested Ancient Greek παταγεῖον (patageîon), perhaps from πάταγος (pátagos, “clatter”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Commonly irregular IPA(key): /pəˈteɪd͡ʒi.əm/,[1] also IPA(key): /pætəˈd͡ʒaɪəm/[2] following the Latin
Noun
[edit]patagium (plural patagia)
- The thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of a bat or of gliding mammals.
- A similar membrane between the body and wing of a bird.
- One of the scales affixed to the pronotum of lepidopterous insects; the tegula.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of gliding mammals
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References
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek παταγεῖον (patageîon).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pa.taˈɡiː.um/, [pät̪äˈɡiːʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pa.taˈd͡ʒi.um/, [pät̪äˈd͡ʒiːum]
Noun
[edit]patagīum n (genitive patagīī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | patagīum | patagīa |
genitive | patagīī | patagīōrum |
dative | patagīō | patagīīs |
accusative | patagīum | patagīa |
ablative | patagīō | patagīīs |
vocative | patagīum | patagīa |
References
[edit]- “patagium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- patagium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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