chlamys

See also: Chlamys

English

WOTD – 31 May 2011

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χλᾰμῠ́ς (khlamús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklæmɪs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈklamɪs/

Noun

chlamys (plural chlamyses or chlamydes)

1. (historical) A short cloak caught up on the shoulder, worn by hunters, soldiers, and horsemen in Ancient Greece.
   • 1844, Walter Savage Landor, ‘Æsop and Rhosope’, Imaginary Conversations:

     He unfolded the chlamys, stretched it out with both hands before me, and then cast it over my shoulders.

   • 1977, Mary Carol Sturgeon, Sculpture: the Reliefs from the Theater, p. 38:

     A male god stands in three-quarter view to right, wearing a chlamys fastened at his right shoulder with a round clasp.

Translations

short cloak

• Catalan: clàmide f
• Finnish: klamys
• French: chlamyde (fr) f
• Greek:

  Ancient:

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• Italian: clamide f
• Russian: хлами́да (ru) f (xlamída)
• Spanish: clámide (es) f

See also

• chiton
• exomis
• himation
• peplos, peplum

Further reading

• chlamys on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Latin

Alternative forms

• clamis, clamys, chlamis, chlamyda

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek χλᾰμῠ́ς (khlamús).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰla.mys/, [ˈkʰɫ̪ämʏs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkla.mis/, [ˈkläːmis]

Noun

chlamys f (genitive chlamydos or chlamydis); third declension

1. chlamys (a broad, woollen upper garment worn in Greece, sometimes purple, and inwrought with gold, worn especially by distinguished military characters, a Grecian military cloak, a state mantle; hence also, the cloak of Pallas; and sometimes also worn by persons not engaged in war, by, e.g., Mercury, Dido, Agrippina, children, actors, the chorus in tragedy, etc.)

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant or non-Greek-type).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	chlamys	chlamydes chlamydēs
Genitive	chlamydos chlamydis	chlamydum
Dative	chlamydī	chlamydibus
Accusative	chlamyda chlamydem	chlamydas chlamydēs
Ablative	chlamyde	chlamydibus
Vocative	chlamys chlamy1	chlamydes chlamydēs

¹In poetry.

Synonyms

• (chlamys: military cloak): palūdāmentum (the Roman approximate equivalent)

References

• “chlămys”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “chlamys”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• chlamys 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)
• chlămy̆s in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 301/2.
• “chlamys”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “chlamys”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “chlamys” on page 310/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)