vestimentum

Latin

Etymology

vestīre (“clothe”) +‎ -mentum

Pronunciation

Noun

vestīmentum n (genitive vestīmentī); second declension

  1. (in the singular) garment, robe, article of clothing
  2. (in the plural) clothes, clothing, garments
    Synonym: coopertūra
    vestīmenta mūtāre ― to change one's clothes
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.6.27:
      numquid abscondere potest homō ignem in sinū suō ut vestīmenta illīus nōn ārdeant
      Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn? (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative vestīmentum vestīmenta
genitive vestīmentī vestīmentōrum
dative vestīmentō vestīmentīs
accusative vestīmentum vestīmenta
ablative vestīmentō vestīmentīs
vocative vestīmentum vestīmenta

Descendants

References

  • “vestimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vestimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "vestimentum", 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)
  • vestimentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to change one's clothes (and shoes): vestimenta (et calceos) mutare
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