camisia
English
Etymology
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)
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | camisia | camisiae |
| genitive | camisiae | camisiārum |
| dative | camisiae | camisiīs |
| accusative | camisiam | camisiās |
| ablative | camisiā | camisiīs |
| vocative | camisia | camisiae |
Descendants
- Eastern Romance
- Franco-Provençal: chemise
- Gallo-Italic
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Old French: chemise, cemise, chemes, chamisae
- Champenois: cheminge, cheminze
- Franc-Comtois: tchemise
- Gallo: chminzz
- French: chemise
- Antillean Creole: chimiz
- Guianese Creole: chimiz
- Haitian Creole: chemiz
- Karipúna Creole French: ximiz
- Louisiana Creole: chimiz, chimij, chmiz, chimiy, chmij
- Seychellois Creole: simiz, cemiz
- → Dutch: chemise
- → English: chemise
- → Japanese: シュミーズ (shumīzu)
- → Ladino: shemiz
- → Neapolitan: scemisse
- → Scots: chemeis
- → Vietnamese: sơ-mi
- → Yemeni Arabic: شميز
- Norman: queminse (continental Normandy), qu'minse, ch'minse (Guernsey), c'mînse (Jersey)
- Walloon: tchimijhe
- Old Occitan:
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: cjamese
- Ladin: ciameija
- Romansch: chamischa
- Sabir: camicia
- Sardinian: camigia, camisa
- Venetan: camixa
- West Iberian
- → Albanian: këmishë
- → Arabic: قَمِيص (qamīṣ) (see there for further descendants)
- → Coptic: ⲕⲁⲙⲓⲥ (kamis)
- → Old Czech: komžě
- → Polish: komża
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kamisi (see there for further descendants)
- → Byzantine Greek: καμίσιον (kamísion)
- → Old Irish: caimse
- Irish: caimse
- Manx: caimis
- → Translingual: Camisia
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
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “camĭsa”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 142