TENT Copy link • TENTtentorium (of cloth or skins, a military, movable tent; Sen., Hirtius): tabernaculum (Cic.; the word which Caes. uses for a soldier’s tent; it denotes, PROP., a slight hut or habitation, made of boards, skins, etc., but more durable and serviceable than tentorium; we often find pelles, plur., for “tents”). The general’s tent, praetorium: to pitch a tent, tabernaculum statuere, constituere (Caes.); collocare, ponere (Cic.; also absolutely); tendere (Tac., Curt.): to strike tents, tabernacula detendere (Caes., Liv.): a tent bed, lectus in tentorio collocandus: lectus castrensis: a little tent, tentoriolum (Hirt.): a tent-nail, paxillus tentorii. A roll of lint put into a sore, turunda (Cato); penicillum (Cato, Plin.).