vestitura

Italian

Noun

vestitura f (plural vestiture)

1. dressing (act of putting on clothes)
2. covering, coating (material)

Latin

Etymology 1

From vestī- (“dress, enrobe”) +‎ -tūra. Attested in sense 2 from 769 CE and sense 7 from 899.

Noun

vestītūra f (genitive vestītūrae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. investiture
2. possession
3. annual rent
4. rent for an ecclesiastical subjection
5. personal dependence
6. appurtenances
7. clothes, dress

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vestītūra	vestītūrae
genitive	vestītūrae	vestītūrārum
dative	vestītūrae	vestītūrīs
accusative	vestītūram	vestītūrās
ablative	vestītūrā	vestītūrīs
vocative	vestītūra	vestītūrae

Descendants

(All with sense 7.)

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: vestitura
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: vestidura, vestedura, vestadura
    • Catalan: vestidura
  • Old French: vesteure (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: vestidura
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: vestidura
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: vestidura
    • Galician: vestidura
    • Portuguese: vestidura
  • Spanish: vestidura

Etymology 2

Participle

vestītūra

1. inflection of vestītūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

vestītūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of vestītūrus

References

• vestitura 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)