tergus

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

tergus oris, n

TRAG-, the back, body, trunk : resecat de tergore (suis) partem, of a chine of bacon , O.: diviso tergore (iuvenci), Ph.— A skin, hide, leather : Tergora deripiunt costis, V.: Gestasset laevā taurorum tergora septem, seven layers of hide (as a shield), O.