Camisia
Camisia whence French chemise, a linen shirt worn next to the skin, is first mentioned in the fourth century by St. Jerome (Ep. 64, n. 11), from whom we learn that the word was used in the popular language, and that in his time the camisia was worn by soldiers ( solent militantes habere lineas, quas camisias vocant
). It is also mentioned by Isidorus (Orig. 19.22), and by Paulus (Fest. s. v. supparus, p. 311, M.), who gives it as the equivalent of the older word subucula.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.