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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• SHELTER
1.
  • s. That which covers or defends, tectum (roof): perfugium (place of refuge, or offering a shelter): deversorium (a place to put up at, on the road): hospitium (if in the house, or under the roof of a friend): asylum (an asylum). To afford a shelter, tectum praebere; also, hospitio accipere: tecto, ad se or ad se domum, recipere (under one’s roof, in one’s house); tectis ac sedibus recipere; moenibus, tectis, recipere (of the inhabitants of a town, with regard to fugitives); asylum aperire (to give an asylum). To find a shelter, hospitium nancisci. At some places I cannot even find a shelter, multis locis ne tectum quidem accipio.
  • Protection, praesidium.
  • Protector, scutum (figuratively; i. e., shield).
  • A protection against rain, etc., subgrunda: subgrundium.
2. v. To give or to take shelter, [Vid. SHELTER, substantive; Vid: also, the SYN. in To DEFEND, To GUARD]. To shelter against the heat of the sun, contra solem protegere (e.g., one’s head). To shelter against the cold and the heat, contra frigorem aestusque injuriam tueri. The harbor was sheltered from the south-west winds, portus ab Africa tegebatur. To be sheltered by one’s post as ambassador, legationis jure tectum esse: to be sheltered, tectum or tutum esse.