vestimentum

Latin

Etymology

vestīre (“clothe”) +‎ -mentum

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯es.tiːˈmen.tum/, [u̯ɛs̠t̪iːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ves.tiˈmen.tum/, [vest̪iˈmɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

vestīmentum n (genitive vestīmentī); second declension

1. (in the singular) garment, robe, article of clothing
2. (in the plural) clothes, clothing, garments

   Synonym: coopertūra

   vestīmenta mūtāre ― to change one's clothes

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.6.27:

     numquid abscondere potest homō ignem in sinū suō ut vestīmenta illīus nōn ārdeant

     Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn? (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	vestīmentum	vestīmenta
genitive	vestīmentī	vestīmentōrum
dative	vestīmentō	vestīmentīs
accusative	vestīmentum	vestīmenta
ablative	vestīmentō	vestīmentīs
vocative	vestīmentum	vestīmenta

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: vishtimintu
  • Romanian: veșmânt
• Dalmatian:
  • vestemiant
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: vestimento
  • Sicilian: vistimentu
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansch: büschmaint
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: vestement, vestiment, vestemant
    • Middle French: vestement, vestiment
      • French: vêtement
    • → Middle English: vestement, vestment
      • English: vestment
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: vestiment
  • Occitan: vestiment
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: vestimenta
  • Portuguese: vestimenta
  • Old Spanish: vestimienta, vestimient
    • Ladino: vestimienta
    • Spanish: vestimenta

References

• “vestimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vestimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vestimentum 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)
• vestimentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to change one's clothes (and shoes): vestimenta (et calceos) mutare