noun · femininethird declension
chlamys
chlamys f (genitive chlamydos or chlamydis)
Classical[ˈkʰɫa.mys]Ecclesiastical[ˈklaː.mis]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- femininechlamys (a broad, woollen upper garment worn in Greece, sometimes purple, and inwrought with gold, worn especially by distinguished military characters, a Grecian military cloak, a state mantle; hence also, the cloak of Pallas; and sometimes also worn by persons not engaged in war, by, e.g., Mercury, Dido, Agrippina, children, actors, the chorus in tragedy, etc.)
- femininecloak, cape, robe, mantle
Tandem prōgreditur, magnā stīpante catervā,
At last [Dido] comes forth, with a large retinue surrounding her, [and she] wears a Sidonian cloak with an embroidered border.29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.136-137
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
parvum pallium equitum iuvenumque, quod fībulā in umerō fīgitur.chlamys -ydis f — in Mille Verba, ch. Vestis et Ōrnāmenta
pallium mīlitārechlamys -ydis (f) — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 25
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | chlamys | chlamydes clamydēs |
| genitive | chlamydos chlamydis, clamydis | chlamydum clamydum |
| dative | chlamydī clamydī | chlamydibus clamydibus |
| accusative | chlamyda chlamydem, clamydem | chlamydas chlamydēs, clamydēs |
| ablative | chlamyde clamyde | chlamydibus clamydibus |
| vocative | chlamys | chlamydes clamydēs |
chlămys, ўdis (chlămўda, ae, as cassida = cassis, al., App. M. 10, p. 253, 31; 11, p. 269, 11; and perh. Varr. ap. Non. p. 539, 9, where, however, chlamyda may be acc. Gr. from chlamys), f., = χλαμύς,
I. a broad, woollen upper garment worn in Greece, sometimes purple, and inwrought with gold, worn esp. by distinguished milit. characters, a Grecian military cloak, a state mantle, Plaut. Curc. 5, 2, 13; id. Ep. 3, 3, 51; id. Mil. 5, 30; id. Ps. 2, 4, 45; 4, 7, 88; Cic. Rab. Post. 10, 27; Verg. A. 5, 250; 9, 582; 11, 775; Ov. M. 5, 51; 14, 345; 14, 393.—Hence also, the cloak of Pallas, Verg. A. 8, 588; Suet. Calig. 25.—Sometimes also worn by persons not engaged in war, e. g. by Mercury, Ov. M. 2, 733;
by Dido, Verg. A. 4, 137; by Agrippina, Tac. A. 12, 56 (in Plin. 33, 3, 19, § 63, instead of it, paludamentum); by children, Verg. A. 3, 484; Suet. Tib. 6; cf. Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 69; by actors, Auct. Her. 4, 47, 60; App. Flor. 15; by the chorus in tragedy, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 40.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
chlamys ydis, f
, χλαμύς, a Grecian upper garment of wool, military cloak, state mantle: cum chlamyde statua: Tyria, O.: Pallas chlamyde conspectus, V.—In gen., a cloak, mantle, V., H., O.
Origins
From the Ancient Greek χλᾰμῠ́ς (khlămŭ́s).
Descendants
- Englishchlamys
- Italianclamide
- Spanishclámide