pteruge

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. historical
    — 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.

词形变化

pteruges plural

词源

Derived from Ancient Greek πτέρυξ (ptérux, “feather”).
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