vestito Italian · revision 37842

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /vesˈti.to/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vestito''' ''m'' (plural ''vestiti''); as an adjective (feminine ''vestita'', plurals ''vestiti'', ''vestite'')^(Wiktionary)

+ Old Italian also had ''vestuto'' and ''vestìo''.^(GDLI)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The noun is [[inh|la|vestītus|t=clothing, dress]], the action noun of [[m|la|vestiō|t=to clothe]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010) It is found also in [[fur|vistit]], [[oc|vestit]], [[ca|vestit]], [[es|vestido]] and [[pt|vestido]].^(REW 1935) GDLI treats it instead as the past participle of the verb [[vestire]], used as a noun.^(GDLI) The adjective is that participle.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ The Latin verb is formed from [[m|la|vestis|t=garment, clothes]], which goes back to the Proto-Indo-European root [[m|ine-pro|*wes-|t=to clothe]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The noun is first recorded in the first half of the 14th century, in Domenico Cavalca (before 1342), who writes of the ''vestiti preziosi'' (costly clothes) that the Apostle forbids to young wives.^(Nocentini 2010)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(GDLI) The participle is older: Dante's ''Vita nuova'' has Beatrice ''vestita di nobilissimo colore'' (dressed in a most noble colour).^(GDLI)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Old Italian ''vestito'' meant clothing in general, and the phrase ''vitto e vestito'' “food and clothing” for one's keep survives in older usage.^(GDLI)^(Zingarelli 2010) The modern sense is a single complete garment: for a man, a suit of jacket and trousers; for a woman, a dress in one piece or a skirt and jacket.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ The adjective developed figurative senses, “covered” (hills clothed in snow) and, in botany, “still in its husk” (''riso vestito'').^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010) ''Calzato e vestito'', literally “shod and clothed”, came to mean “complete, out-and-out”, as in ''un asino calzato e vestito''.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Before 1342 – Domenico Cavalca uses the noun ''vestiti''.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(GDLI)

+ * 1869 – Tommaseo lists ''vestito da inverno'', ''da estate'' and ''da mezza stagione''.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|dress]] or [[m|en|suit]], an outfit worn over underwear: ''Ha comprato un vestito blu per il matrimonio.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(in the plural)'' Clothes in general: ''Metti i vestiti nell'armadio.''^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(uncommon)'' [[m|en|clothing|alt=Clothing]] as a need or expense.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Dressed, with one's clothes on: ''Si è addormentato vestito sul divano.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

+ # Dressed in a particular way: ''sempre vestito di grigio'', ''vestito a festa''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(figurative)'' Covered: ''colline vestite di vigneti''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(botany)'' Of a seed or grain, still in its [[m|en|husk]]: ''riso vestito''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[vestitino]]

+ * [[vestitone]]

+ * [[semivestito]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vestaglia]]

+ * [[veste]]

+ * [[vestiario]]

+ * [[vestimento]]

+ * [[vestire]]

+ * [[vestitura]]

+ * [[vestizione]]

+ * [[la|vestitus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Nascere vestito'', “to be born clothed”, is a dated way of saying someone was born lucky.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Gabrielli 2020) The usual diminutive is ''vestitino'', and ''vestito della domenica'' is one's best clothes.^(Treccani 2011)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}