chlamys
See also: Chlamys
English
WOTD – 31 May 2011
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χλᾰμῠ́ς (khlamús).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈklæmɪs/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈklamɪs/
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Noun
chlamys (plural chlamyses or chlamydes)
- (historical) A short poncho-like cloak caught up on the shoulder, worn by hunters, soldiers, and horsemen in Ancient Greece.
- 1824–1829, Walter Savage Landor, “Æsop and Rhosope”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […]:
- He unfolded the chlamys, stretched it out with both hands before me, and then cast it over my shoulders.
- 1977, Mary Carol Sturgeon, Sculpture: the Reliefs from the Theater, page 38:
- A male god stands in three-quarter view to right, wearing a chlamys fastened at his right shoulder with a round clasp.
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Translations
short cloak
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See also
- chiton
- exomis
- himation
- peplos, peplum
Further reading
chlamys on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Alternative forms
- clamis, clamys, chlamis, chlamyda
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek χλᾰμῠ́ς (khlamús).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʰla.mys/, [ˈkʰɫ̪ämʏs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkla.mis/, [ˈkläːmis]
Noun
chlamys f (genitive chlamydos or chlamydis); third declension
- chlamys (a broad, woollen upper garment worn in Greece, sometimes purple, and inwrought with gold, worn especially by distinguished military characters, a Grecian military cloak, a state mantle; hence also, the cloak of Pallas; and sometimes also worn by persons not engaged in war, by, e.g., Mercury, Dido, Agrippina, children, actors, the chorus in tragedy, etc.)
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant or non-Greek-type).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | chlamys | chlamydes chlamydēs |
| Genitive | chlamydos chlamydis | chlamydum |
| Dative | chlamydī | chlamydibus |
| Accusative | chlamyda chlamydem | chlamydas chlamydēs |
| Ablative | chlamyde | chlamydibus |
| Vocative | chlamys chlamy1 | chlamydes chlamydēs |
1In poetry.
Synonyms
- (chlamys: military cloak): palūdāmentum (the Roman approximate equivalent)
References
- “chlămys”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “chlamys”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- chlamys 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)
- chlămy̆s in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 301/2
- “chlamys”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “chlamys”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- “chlamys” on page 310/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)