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Pronunciation
Verb
vestis
- past of vesti
Galician
Verb
vestis
- (reintegrationist norm) second-person plural present indicative of vestir
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *westis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis, from *wes- (“to be dressed”). Cognate with Old Armenian զգեստ (zgest), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹 (wasti), Tocharian B wastsi, and Ancient Greek εἷμα (heîma, “garment”). The root was also the source of English wear.
Pronunciation
Noun
vestis f (genitive vestis); third declension
- garment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesture
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Derived terms
Descendants
Verb
vestīs
- second-person singular present active indicative of vestiō
References
- “vestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vestis 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)
- vestis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to dress oneself: induere vestem (without sibi)
- to go into mourning: vestem mutare (opp. ad vestitum suum redire) (Planc. 12. 29)
- to undress: vestem ponere (exuere)
- (ambiguous) drapery: vestis stragula or simply vestis
- “vestis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “vestis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- “vest”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Portuguese
Verb
vestis
- second-person plural present indicative of vestir