paludamentum

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

paludamentum (plural paladumenta)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers, fastened at one shoulder.
   • 1847, “The Wellington Statue”, in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., London, page 523, column 2:

     The horse was not in the least like a Greek horse (nor even a Trojan), and F.M. the Duke of Wellington was not represented with the ensis or short sword in his grasp, the chlamys flying from his shoulder, or the paludamentum, as more suitable for the cool of the English climate (totidem divisos orbe &c.), the kothornos on his leg, the galea slung at the crupper? no reins, and his naked nether-man, not (as in these precious models) seated on the bare back of the bull-necked, square-jawed, dray-limbed steed.

References

• “paludamentum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

Cognate with pallium and palla.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa.luː.daːˈmen.tum/, [päɫ̪uːd̪äːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.lu.daˈmen.tum/, [pälud̪äˈmɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

palūdāmentum n (genitive palūdāmentī); second declension

1. A military cloak or cape fastened at one shoulder.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	palūdāmentum	palūdāmenta
Genitive	palūdāmentī	palūdāmentōrum
Dative	palūdāmentō	palūdāmentīs
Accusative	palūdāmentum	palūdāmenta
Ablative	palūdāmentō	palūdāmentīs
Vocative	palūdāmentum	palūdāmenta

Related terms

• palūdātus

Descendants

• English: paludamentum
• Italian: paludamento
• Spanish: paludamento

References

• “paludamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “paludamentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• paludamentum 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)
• paludamentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “paludamentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “paludamentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin