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“clothes” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

clothes
vestes: vestimenta: tegumenta corporis. [Vid. DRESS, GARMENT.] To change one’s clothes, vestimenta mutare. To be fond of fine clothes, nimio in dulgere vestitui; vestes emere sumtuosius (after Plin. Ep., 9, 12. init.). PROV. Clothes make the man, homo ex veste, aut ex conditione, quae vestis nobis cireum data est, vulgo aestimatur (after Sen., Ep., 47, 14). The expense of one’s clothes, sumtus vestium. The servant who looks after one’s clothes, vestispex (Inscript.: feminine, vestispica): capsarius (the slave who looked after his master’s clothes while he bathed). Old fashioned clothes, vestitus obsoletus. To send one’s clothes to the wash, vesteslavandas dare: dirty or foul clothes, *lintea sordida. To male clothes, vestes conficere: to mend or patch them, resarcire: to put them on [Vid: To CLOTHE]: to take them off, exuere (of clothes that are drawn on), ponere, deponere (of clothes that are flung round one; e.g., ponere tunicam, Cic.): to leave off clothes, vestes abjicere, rejicere, deponere: to tear clothes, vestes discindere: to take, pull, or strip a man’s clothes off, vestes alicui detrahere: to buy new clothes, novam sibi parare vestem. A full suit of clothes, synthesis (Scaevola, Dig., 34, 2, 38: Mart., 2, 46, 4): plenus, justus vestitus (Kraft). Clothes-brush, peniculus or penicillius. OBS., the ancients used for this purpose eithir cauda bubula (a cow’s tail for brushiug off the dust), or erinacei cutis (the skin of a hedge-hog for making them smooth).
Clothes-press, armarium noi scrinium), the ancients kept them either in a chest, arca vestiaria, or in a room or closet for the purpose. vestiarium.
Bed-clothes, vestimenta stragula, or from contaxt stragula only (stragulum was under the sleeper, opertorium above him, Sen.).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for clothes?
The usual Latin words for “clothes” are vestis, vestīmentum, ineō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.