tunica

== English == === Etymology === From Latin tunica. Doublet of tunic and maybe distantly related to chiton. === Noun === tunica (countable and uncountable, plural tunicae or tunicas) Synonym of tunic (“garment”). Synonym of tunic (“covering”). ==== Usage notes ==== Medical English has naturalized more than a dozen Terminologia Anatomica terms for various tunicae in the human body. These are translingual, as any modern language shares them via international scientific vocabulary. ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin tunica. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈty.niˌkaː/ Hyphenation: tu‧ni‧ca === Noun === tunica f (plural tunica's or tunicae, no diminutive) Roman tunic ==== Related terms ==== tuniek == Italian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin tunica. Compare the inherited tonaca. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtu.ni.ka/ Rhymes: -unika Hyphenation: tù‧ni‧ca === Noun === tunica f (plural tuniche) (clothing, anatomy, botany) tunic ==== Derived terms ==== tunicati tunicato === Anagrams === canuti, cuntai, cutina, incuta, taicun, tucani == Latin == === Etymology === Possibly of Central Semitic origin as Ancient Greek χῐτών (khĭtṓn), with a metathesis. Compare Aramaic כִּיתּוּנָא (kittōnā, “tunic”) / ܟܘܬܝܢܐ (kuttīnā, kottīnā, “tunic”), Hebrew כֻּתֹּנֶת (kuttṓnĕṯ, “tunic”); from the word for flax, Aramaic כּיתָּנָא (kittānā, “flax”) / ܟܬܢܐ (kettānā, “flax”), Akkadian 𒃰 (kitûm, “flax”), Sumerian 𒃰 (gada, “flax”), ultimately a substrate word. However, Etruscan has been suggested as well. Compare also borrowed textile terms of unknown origin in Mycenaean Greek 𐀵𐀖𐀏 (to-mi-ka) and 𐀵𐀛𐀊 (to-ni-ja), both descriptions of textile, as well as 𐀶𐀙𐀜 (tu-na-no, “kind of textile”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtʊ.nɪ.ka] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtuː.ni.ka] === Noun === tunica f (genitive tunicae); first declension tunic, an undergarment worn by both men and women (figuratively) a coating, membrane, peel (Medieval Latin) a military cloak ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== tunicātus tunicō tunicopallium tunicula ==== Descendants ==== Borrowings: === Verb === tunicā second-person singular present active imperative of tunicō === References === “tunica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tunica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "tunica", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “tunica”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “tunica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “tunica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin Notes: