tunicatus Latin · revision 34440

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=la tunica}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [tʊ.nɪˈkaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [tu.niˈkaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tunicātus''' (feminine tunicāta, neuter tunicātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|tunica|-ātus|t1=tunic]];^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Wiktionary takes it as the perfect participle of the verb [[m|la|tunicō|t=to clothe with a tunic]].^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) The noun [[m|la|tunica]] is probably of Semitic origin, like [[grc|χιτών|tr=khitṓn|t=tunic]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) the OLD compares [[hbo|כֻּתֹּנֶת|tr=kuttṓnĕṯ|t=tunic]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and the OLD record it first in Ennius' ''Annales'', which speak of a ''tunicata iuventus'', youth dressed in tunics.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means wearing a tunic, usually without a toga or outer garment.^(OLD 2012) Cicero speaks of exercise and games on the Campus in tunics, Ovid has a girl standing in her tunic, and Pliny the Elder mentions a statue of Hercules ''tunicatus'', which the OLD explains as wearing the shirt of Nessus.^(OLD 2012) It was said of the poorer people of Rome, who did not normally wear the toga: Cicero calls them ''tunicati'', Horace has ''tunicatus popellus'' and Tacitus ''tunicatus hic populus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Juvenal and Suetonius use it of the net-fighters, who fought without armour, and Martial of the ease of country life, ''tunicata quies''.^(OLD 2012) Persius applies it to an onion wrapped in its skins.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Sidonius contrasts the ''tunicati'' with the ''paludati'', men in military cloaks.^(Georges 1913) In medieval Britain it was used of monastic and ecclesiastical dress, of subdeacons in tunicles, of armour, and of a bean in its skin.^(DMLBS) English took it over as [[m|en|tunicate]] in the 18th century, first of things covered with layers.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius has ''tunicata iuventus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of exercise in tunics and of the poor.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace has ''tunicatus popellus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 34–62 AD – Persius uses it of an onion.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 431–486 AD – Sidonius contrasts the ''tunicati'' with the ''paludati''.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1760 – English borrows it as ''tunicate''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Wearing a [[m|en|tunic]], usually without a toga or outer garment.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Of the poorer classes at Rome, who did not wear the toga; as a plural noun, the common people.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Covered with protective layers, as an onion with its skins.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Wearing a [[m|en|tunicle]] or monastic habit.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tunica]]

+ * [[en|tunicate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}