vestitus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛsˈtiː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vesˈtiː.tus]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of vestiō (“clothe, dress”).

Participle

vestītus (feminine vestīta, neuter vestītum); first/second-declension participle

1. (rare) clothed, clad, dressed, having been clothed.
2. (of vegetation) covered, blanketed, having been covered by vegetation.
3. (figuratively) having been made emperor

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vestītus	vestīta	vestītum		vestītī	vestītae	vestīta
genitive	vestītī	vestītae	vestītī		vestītōrum	vestītārum	vestītōrum
dative	vestītō	vestītae	vestītō		vestītīs
accusative	vestītum	vestītam	vestītum		vestītōs	vestītās	vestīta
ablative	vestītō	vestītā	vestītō		vestītīs
vocative	vestīte	vestīta	vestītum		vestītī	vestītae	vestīta

Etymology 2

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 vestiō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin vestītus

From vestiō + -tus (forming action nouns).

Noun

vestītus m (genitive vestītūs); fourth declension

1. clothing, apparel, raiment, attire

   Synonym: vestis

2. (of inanimate things) a cover, covering

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vestītus	vestītūs
genitive	vestītūs	vestītuum
dative	vestītuī	vestītibus
accusative	vestītum	vestītūs
ablative	vestītū	vestītibus
vocative	vestītus	vestītūs

Descendants

• Asturian: vestidu
• Catalan: vestit
• Friulian: vistît
• Italian: vestito
• Occitan: vestit
• Portuguese: vestido
• Romagnol: vstid, vistìd
• Romansh: vestgì, vestgiu, vstieu
• Sicilian: vistitu
• Spanish: vestido
• Venetan: vestìdo, vestìo, vistìo

Related terms

• vestiārium
• vestiārius
• vesticula
• vestifica
• vestificīna
• vestificus
• vestifluus
• vestīmentum
• vestiō
• vestiplica
• vestiplicus
• vestis
• vestispica
• vestītor

References

• “vestitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vestitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vestitus", 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)
• “vestitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • wooded hills: montes vestiti silvis
    
  • cast-off clothing: vestitus obsoletus, tritus
    
  • (ambiguous) to go into mourning: vestem mutare (opp. ad vestitum suum redire) (Planc. 12. 29)