tergilla

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of tergus (“back, rear”).

Noun

tergilla f (genitive tergillae); first declension

1. The skin, sward or rind of pork

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tergilla	tergillae
genitive	tergillae	tergillārum
dative	tergillae	tergillīs
accusative	tergillam	tergillās
ablative	tergillā	tergillīs
vocative	tergilla	tergillae

References

• “tergilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tergilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.