pteruge
pteruge noun: a flexible feather-like strip of material at the edge of body or head armour, particularly used in Greco-Roman times, such as the flaps of a linothorax or the strips hanging from a Roman legionary's belt.
Noun
pteruge (plural pteruges)
- A flexible feather-like strip of material at the edge of body or head armour, particularly used in Greco-Roman times, such as the flaps of a linothorax or the strips hanging from a Roman legionary's belt.
- In Metope VI a mounted officer, probably the Emperor Trajan himself, wears a lorica squamata of very small scales with a double skirt of pteruges and a cingulum about the waist.1975, H. Russell Robinson, The Armour of Imperial Rome, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 160
- Under this come three fragments with vertical pteruges that are rectangular with rounded lower ends, and another fragment with pteruges angled up to the right, which perhaps form a swirl at the left hip.1989, Emily Vermeule, “Carved Bones from Corinth”, in Thomas A. Holland, editor, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, number 47, Chicago, Illinois: The Oriental Institute of the University of...
Forms of pteruge
| plural | pteruges |
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Origin of pteruge
Derived from Ancient Greek πτέρυξ (ptérux, “feather”).
Questions about pteruge
- What does pteruge mean?
- Pteruge means a flexible feather-like strip of material at the edge of body or head armour, particularly used in Greco-Roman times, such as the flaps of a linothorax or the strips hanging from a Roman legionary's belt.
- What part of speech is pteruge?
- Pteruge is a noun.
- What is the plural of pteruge?
- The plural of pteruge is pteruges.
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