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Yes. The word tergum is a Scrabble US word. The word tergum is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word tergum is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

TERGUM,

5-letter words (3 found)

GRUME,MUTER,TURME,

4-letter words (15 found)

GERM,GERT,GEUM,GRUE,GRUM,MURE,MUTE,RUME,TEGU,TERM,TREM,TRUE,TRUG,TURM,URGE,

3-letter words (28 found)

EMU,ERG,ERM,GEM,GER,GET,GUE,GUM,GUR,GUT,MEG,MET,MEU,MUG,MUT,REG,REM,RET,RUE,RUG,RUM,RUT,TEG,TUG,TUM,UME,URE,UTE,

2-letter words (12 found)

EM,ER,ET,GU,ME,MU,RE,TE,UG,UM,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 60 words from tergum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tergum

tergum

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tergum (“back, rear; surface”).

Noun

tergum (plural terga)

  1. (entomology) The upper or dorsal surface of an articulated animal such as an arthropod.

Derived terms

  • tergal

Related terms

  • tergite

Latin

Etymology

From tergus.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈter.ɡum/, [ˈt̪ɛrɡʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈter.ɡum/, [ˈt̪ɛrɡum]

Noun

tergum n (genitive tergī); second declension

  1. back, rear; surface
    tergum/terga vertere ― be on the run, to escape

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

  • terga vertere

Descendants

  • Italian: tergo

References

  • “tergum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tergum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tergum 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)
  • tergum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Dizionario Latino, Olivetti


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