Dictionary

patagium en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /pætəˈd͡ʒaɪəm/
• /pəˈteɪd͡ʒi.əm/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin patagīum (“gilded edging of a woman's tunic”), from an unattested Ancient Greek παταγεῖον (patageîon), perhaps from πάταγος (pátagos, “clatter”).

Meanings

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.

Forms

Deriveds

chiropatagium

Relateds

cruropatagium · plagiopatagium · brachiopatagium · uropatagium · propatagium · dactylopatagium · parapatagium

Translations (10)

es patagio (thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of gliding mammals) · vo flitaskinäd (thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of gliding mammals) · de Spannhaut (thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of gliding mammals) · ko 비막 bimak (thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of gliding mammals) · de Patagium (thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of gliding mammals) · de Flughaut (thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of gliding mammals) · de Gleithaut (thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of gliding mammals) · pl błona lotna (thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of gliding mammals) · de Flatterhaut (thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of gliding mammals) · it patagio (thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of gliding mammals)