vestimentum

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

vestīre (clothe) +‎ -mentum

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

vestīmentum n (genitive vestīmentī); second declension

  1. (in the singular) garment, robe, article of clothing
  2. (in the plural) clothes, clothing, garments
    Synonym: coopertūra
    vestīmenta mūtāreto change one's clothes
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.6.27:
      numquid abscondere potest homō ignem in sinū suō ut vestīmenta illīus nōn ārdeant
      Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn? (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vestīmentum vestīmenta
Genitive vestīmentī vestīmentōrum
Dative vestīmentō vestīmentīs
Accusative vestīmentum vestīmenta
Ablative vestīmentō vestīmentīs
Vocative vestīmentum vestīmenta

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • vestimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vestimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vestimentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • vestimentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to change one's clothes (and shoes): vestimenta (et calceos) mutare