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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin subligāculum.
Noun
subligaculum (plural subligacula)
- (Ancient Rome) A kind of underwear worn in Ancient Rome.
Translations
Latin
Etymology
From subligō (“to tie below”) + -culum, equivalent to sub- + ligō + -culum.
Pronunciation
Noun
subligāculum n (genitive subligāculī); second declension
- waistband, apron
- loincloth
- kilt
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “subligaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “subligaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- subligaculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “subligaculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “subligaculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin