dalmatica

See also: dalmática

English

Etymology

From Latin dalmatica.

Noun

dalmatica (plural dalmaticae or dalmaticas)

1. Synonym of dalmatic
   • 1865, H[enry] O’Shea, “Seville”, in A Guide to Spain, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 390, column 2:

     See also the splendid dresses of the clergy, unequalled in any other country and age; the dalmaticas and ternos are most superbly embroidered.

   • 1904, Jean Paul Richter, Alicia Cameron Taylor, The Golden Age of Classic Christian Art, London: Duckworth and Co., pages 201 and 355:

     Moses and his followers wear the tunic and pallium, the Jews coloured dalmaticae and paenulae. […] The women wear long gaily but softly tinted dalmaticae, with broad coloured clavi;

   • 1905, F. Holmes Dudden, Gregory the Great: His Place in History and Thought, volume II, Eugene, Or.: Wipf and Stock Publishers, published 26 August 2004, page 74:

     For the privilege of wearing dalmaticae, see above, Vol. I. p. 263, n. 1.

   • 1924, Herbert Norris, Costume & Fashion: The Evolution of European Dress Through the Earlier Ages, London, Toronto, Ont.: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.; New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton and Co., page 101:

     Tunicas and dalmaticas, although usually of some solid, bright colour, now began to be decorated all over with patterns, embroidered or stencilled in conventional designs.

   • 1929, In the Evening of My Thought, Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, translation of [Au Soir de la Pensée] by Georges Clemenceau, page 323:

     It ornamented, not only the chair of Saint Ambrose at Milan, but also the dalmaticas of the primitive Christians.

   • 1968, Bonner Jahrbücher, page 222:

     The Edict of Diocletian (A. D. 301) lists all manner of dalmaticae in fine wool, silk, wool and silk union fabric, and linen, for men and women.

Italian

Noun

dalmatica f (plural dalmatiche)

1. dalmatic (kind of tunic)

Adjective

dalmatica f sg

1. feminine singular of dalmatico

Latin

Adjective

dalmatica

1. inflection of dalmaticus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

dalmaticā

1. ablative feminine singular of dalmaticus

References

• dalmatica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “dalmatica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dalmatica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin