Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tentorium

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

TENTO'RIUM (σκηνή). Strictly, a tent stretched upon cords (from tentus), as contradistinguished from tabernaculum, which was formed on a framework of wood. But that distinction is not strictly observed, and the term is applied to any kind of tent, either for military or civil purposes. Hirt. B. G. viii. 5. Suet. Tib. 18. Virg. Aen. i. 472., and wood-cuts s. PAPILIO and TABERNACULUM.