dalmatica

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See also: dalmática

English

Etymology

From Latin dalmatica.

Noun

dalmatica (plural dalmaticae or dalmaticas)

  1. Synonym of dalmatic
    • 1865, H O’Shea, “Seville”, in A Guide to Spain, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 390, column 2:
      See also the splendid dresses of the clergy, unequalled in any other country and age; the dalmaticas and ternos are most superbly embroidered.
    • 1904, Jean Paul Richter, Alicia Cameron Taylor, The Golden Age of Classic Christian Art, London: Duckworth and Co., pages 201 and 355:
      Moses and his followers wear the tunic and pallium, the Jews coloured dalmaticae and paenulae. [] The women wear long gaily but softly tinted dalmaticae, with broad coloured clavi;
    • 1905, F. Holmes Dudden, Gregory the Great: His Place in History and Thought, volume II, Eugene, Or.: Wipf and Stock Publishers, published 26 August 2004, page 74:
      For the privilege of wearing dalmaticae, see above, Vol. I. p. 263, n. 1.
    • 1924, Herbert Norris, Costume & Fashion: The Evolution of European Dress Through the Earlier Ages, London, Toronto, Ont.: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.; New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton and Co., page 101:
      Tunicas and dalmaticas, although usually of some solid, bright colour, now began to be decorated all over with patterns, embroidered or stencilled in conventional designs.
    • 1929, In the Evening of My Thought, Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, translation of by Georges Clemenceau, page 323:
      It ornamented, not only the chair of Saint Ambrose at Milan, but also the dalmaticas of the primitive Christians.
    • 1968, Bonner Jahrbücher, page 222:
      The Edict of Diocletian (A. D. 301) lists all manner of dalmaticae in fine wool, silk, wool and silk union fabric, and linen, for men and women.

Italian

Noun

dalmatica f (plural dalmatiche)

  1. dalmatic (kind of tunic)

Adjective

dalmatica f sg

  1. feminine singular of dalmatico

Latin

Adjective

dalmatica

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

Adjective

dalmaticā

  1. ablative feminine singular of dalmaticus

References

  • dalmatica 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)
  • dalmatica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dalmatica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin