camisia

== English == === Etymology === From Latin camisia. === Noun === camisia (plural camisias or camisiae) (historical) An ancient kind of shirt or nightgown. == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *hamiþi (“shirt”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱem- (“cover, clothes”). First attested in the writings of Jerome. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaˈmɪ.si.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kaˈmiː.s̬i.a] === Noun === camisia f (genitive camisiae); first declension (Late Latin) shirt nightgown alb ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “camisia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “camisia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “camisia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “camisia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin