camisia

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English

Etymology

Latin camisia

Noun

camisia (plural camisias or camisiae)

  1. (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”).

Noun

camisia f (genitive camisiae); first declension

  1. shirt
  2. nightgown
  3. alb

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative camisia camisiae
Genitive camisiae camisiārum
Dative camisiae camisiīs
Accusative camisiam camisiās
Ablative camisiā camisiīs
Vocative camisia camisiae

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
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