Dalmatic

English

Etymology

From Dalmatia +‎ -ic.

Adjective

Dalmatic (comparative more Dalmatic, superlative most Dalmatic)

1. Related to Dalmatia and its language and culture; Dalmatian.
   • 1849, Robert Rollock, William Maxwell Gunn, Select works, ed. by W.M. Gunn - Volume 1, page 143:

     Jerome translated the Scripture into the Dalmatic tongue, as these men do testify, Alphonsus a Castro, Eckius, Hosius, Erasmus.

   • 2003, P. Sture Ureland, Convergence and divergence of European languages:

     In contrast to the situation in Solvenia, where many geographical terms of Latin or Greek origin have entered the Slovenian language through German mediation (ex. cisterna, kanal, katarakt, ocean, sifon, terme itd.), the Dalmatic language has played the role of intermediary in Croatia.

   • 2012, Georg Rehm, Hans Uszkoreit, The Croatian Language in the Digital Age, page 58:

     Croatian language stands out among the remaining South Slavic languages in significant lexical influence received from Romance languages (substrate traces of the Dalmatic language, e.g., jarbol, tunj). Italian significantly influenced the coastal regions of Croatia (especially the parts formerly under Venetian control), while German and, to an extent, Hungarian influenced the continental part.

Noun

Dalmatic (plural Dalmatics)

1. Alternative form of dalmatic
   • 1838, Joseph Taylor, The Wonders of Nature and Art:

     These are Charlemagne's crown, which weighs fourteen pounds, and is enriched with a great profusion of rubies, emeralds, pearls, and diamonds ; the Dalmatic robe, or mantle, richly embroidered with large pearls ; Charlemagne's sword ; the golden globe and sceptre; the imperial mantle, elegantly embroidered with eagles, and bordered with emeralds, chrysolites, diamonds, and sapphires; the buskins, covered with plates of gold; and the coronation gloves, embroidered with a variety of precious stones.

   • 1840, Charles Henry Hartshorne, An Endeavour to Classify the Sepulchral Remains in Northamptonshire:

     Bingham clearly distinguishes between the Colobium and Dalmatic: the former was a short coat without sleeves, the latter was a long one with sleeves.

   • 1858, John Purchas, The Directorium Anglicanum:

     The Dalmatic should extend to the apparel of the alb, and the sleeves should be sufficiently short not to cover the wrist apparels.