vestimentum Latin · revision 10051

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *wes-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [wɛs.tiːˈmɛn.tũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ves.tiˈmɛn.tum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vestīmentum''' ''n'' (genitive vestīmentī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vestiō|-mentum|t1=to clothe]], from [[vestis]] “clothing”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨vestis⟩ to [[itc-pro|*wes-ti-|t=clothes]], from [[ine-pro|*wes-|t=to wear]], cognate with [[sa|वस्ते|tr=váste|t=wears]] and [[hit|wešš-|t=to wear]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is Plautus, ''nūdō vestīmenta dētrahere'' “to strip clothes off a naked man”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant clothing, and in the plural clothes, garments, as in Plautus, Cicero and Livy; and in Terence a blanket, rug, bedclothes.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means garment, vestment, robe.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for a rent paid to acknowledge a lord's ownership.^(Niermeyer 1976) It survives as French ''vêtement'', Italian ''vestimento'' and Romanian ''veșmânt'', and English ''vestment'' (c. 1200) is from it through Old French.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of bedclothes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1200 – English ''vestment'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|clothing|alt=Clothing]], ''(plural)'' clothes, [[m|en|garment|alt=garments]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A blanket, rug.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A [[m|en|vestment]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vestiō]]

+ * [[vestis]]

+ * [[en|vestment]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}