tectus

Latin

Perfect passive participle of tegō (“cover; shelter”).

tēctus (feminine tēcta, neuter tēctum, comparative tectior); first/second-declension participle

Covered, concealed, hidden; having been covered, hidden or concealed
Sheltered, protected, guarded, defended; having been sheltered, protected, guarded or defended
covered as in roofed; having been covered, roofed
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.261-262:
  quae nunc aere vidēs, stipula tum tēcta vidērēs,
  et pariēs lentō vīmine textus erat.
  [A shrine] which now you see [covered] with copper, then you might see roofed with thatch, and a wall was woven with pliant wicker.
  (The ancient temple of Vesta (mythology).)
Reserved, cautious, secretive

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	tēctus	tēcta	tēctum	tēctī	tēctae	tēcta
Genitive	tēctī	tēctae	tēctī	tēctōrum	tēctārum	tēctōrum
Dative	tēctō	tēctae	tēctō	tēctīs
Accusative	tēctum	tēctam	tēctum	tēctōs	tēctās	tēcta
Ablative	tēctō	tēctā	tēctō	tēctīs
Vocative	tēcte	tēcta	tēctum	tēctī	tēctae	tēcta

“tectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“tectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
tectus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
tectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to set fire to houses: ignem tectis inferre, subicere
- to welcome to one's house (opp. to shut one's door against some one): tecto, (in) domum suam aliquem recipere (opp. prohibere aliquem tecto, domo)
- to invite some one to one's house: invitare aliquem tecto ac domo or domum suam (Liv. 3. 14. 5)