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tecti

tecti is a Latin form of tego, meaning “cover, protect, hide”.

It can also be a form of tectum, “roof; house”. It is the genitive singular neuter noun or perfect passive participle nominative plural masculine or perfect passive participle vocative plural masculine.

Found 68 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 116: … fidem laeditur cui se commiserit? atque ea sunt animadvertenda peccata maxime quae difficillime praecaventur. tecti esse ad alienos possumus, intimi multa apertiora videant necesse est; socium cavere qui possumus? quem etiam …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 11_13.87.8: … ista vehicula caelata? Instratos ostro alipedes pictisque tapetis, Aurea pectoribus demissa monilia pendent, Tecti auro fulvom mandunt sub dentibus aurum. Ista nec dominum meliorem possunt facere nec mulam.

All forms of tego (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.