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English
Etymology
From Latin camisia.
Noun
camisia (plural camisias or camisiae)
- (historical) An ancient kind of shirt or nightgown.
2003, Tom Tierney, Historic Costume: From Ancient Times to the Renaissance, page 58:The father and son depicted here wear short linen camisias. The boy's camisia was probably his “dress-up” wear; the vertical stripe appears on matching stockings. The father's light-colored camisia is worn for work, doubling as an undergarment when he dresses up in an over-tunica.
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *hamiþi (“shirt”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱem- (“cover, clothes”). First attested in the writings of Jerome.[1]
Noun
camisia f (genitive camisiae); first declension (Late Latin)
- shirt
- nightgown
- alb
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “camisia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- camisia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “camisia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “camisia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin