camisia

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin camisia.

Noun

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camisia (plural camisias or camisiae)

  1. (historical) An ancient kind of shirt or nightgown.
    • 2003, Tom Tierney, Historic Costume: From Ancient Times to the Renaissance, page 58:
      The father and son depicted here wear short linen camisias. The boy's camisia was probably his “dress-up” wear; the vertical stripe appears on matching stockings. The father's light-colored camisia is worn for work, doubling as an undergarment when he dresses up in an over-tunica.

Latin

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *hamiþi (shirt), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱem- (cover, clothes). First attested in the writings of Jerome.[1]

    Noun

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    camisia f (genitive camisiae); first declension (Late Latin)

    1. shirt
    2. nightgown
    3. alb

    Declension

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    First-declension noun.

    Case Singular Plural
    Nominative camisia camisiae
    Genitive camisiae camisiārum
    Dative camisiae camisiīs
    Accusative camisiam camisiās
    Ablative camisiā camisiīs
    Vocative camisia camisiae

    Descendants

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    References

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    • camisia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • camisia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • camisia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • camisia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
    1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “camĭsa”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 142