different between wings vs patagium

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w??z/

Noun

wings

1. plural of wing

Noun

wings

1. A type of scuba harness with an attached buoyancy compensation device: see wikipedia:Backplate and wing
2. A flip (hairstyle)

Verb

wings

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wing

Anagrams

• Gwins, Swing, swing

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin patag?um (“gilded edging of a woman's tunic”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (patageîon).

Pronunciation

• Commonly irregular IPA^(key): /p??te?d?i.?m/, also IPA^(key): /pæt??d?a??m/ following the Latin

Noun

patagium (plural patagia)

1. The thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of a bat or of gliding mammals.
2. A similar membrane between the body and wing of a bird.
3. One of the scales affixed to the pronotum of lepidopterous insects; the tegula.

Related terms

• brachiopatagium
• cruropatagium
• dactylopatagium
• parapatagium
• plagiopatagium
• propatagium
• uropatagium

Translations

References

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (patageîon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa.ta??i?.um/, [pät?ä??i????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.ta?d??i.um/, [p?t???d??i?um]

Noun

patag?um n (genitive patag??); second declension

1. A gold edging on a Roman tunic

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

References

• 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