vestimentum

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wes-

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *wéstis

Proto-Italic *westis

Latin vestis

Proto-Indo-European *-yétider.

Latin -iō

Latin vestīre

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Latin -mentum

Latin vestīmentum

From vestīre (“clothe”) + -mentum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛs.tiːˈmɛn.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ves.tiˈmɛn.tum]

Noun

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 mūtāre ― to change one's clothes

   • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, 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

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	vestīmentum	vestīmenta
genitive	vestīmentī	vestīmentōrum
dative	vestīmentō	vestīmentīs
accusative	vestīmentum	vestīmenta
ablative	vestīmentō	vestīmentīs
vocative	vestīmentum	vestīmenta

Descendants

• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: vishtimintu
  • Romanian: veșmânt, vestmânt
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: vestemiant
  • Italian: vestimento
  • Sicilian: vistimentu
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansh: büschmaint
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: vestement, vestiment, vestemant
    • Middle French: vestement, vestiment
      • French: vêtement
    • → Middle English: vestement, vestment
      • English: vestment
• Southern Gallo-Romance: (from the plural)
  • Catalan: vestimenta
  • Occitan: vestimenta
• Ibero-Romance: (from the plural)
  • Galician: vestimenta
  • Portuguese: vestimenta
  • Old Spanish: vestimienta
    • Ladino: vestimienta
    • Spanish: vestimenta (latinized)

References

• “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, 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