tergite
French, noun
tergite is spelled T-E-R-G-I-T-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written French, the 207,469th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tergite is a French feminine noun meaning “tergite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sclérite ou plaque de chitine, située sur l’abdomen (le dos) des arthropodes”.
What does tergite mean in English?
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sclérite ou plaque de chitine, située sur l’abdomen (le dos) des arthropodes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tergite
- tergites plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tergite in French?
tergite appears about once in every 43 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).