patagium

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

• Commonly irregular IPA^(key): /pəˈteɪdʒi.əm/,[1] also IPA^(key): /pætəˈdʒaɪəm/[2] following the Latin

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.

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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παταγεῖον (patageîon).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa.taˈɡiː.um/, [pa.taˈɡiː.ũ]

patagīum n (genitive patagīī); second declension

1. A gold edging on a Roman tunic

Second declension.

• 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