sudarium

Borrowed from Latin sudarium. Doublet of sudary.

sudarium (plural sudaria)

1. (archaic or historical) A napkin or handkerchief.
   • 2012, David Engel, Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History:

     This cloth, known as the Veronica or the vera icon, was kept in St. Peter's in Rome, where its presense is documented with some certainty from the mid-twelfth century onward. At first, however, the existence of the Veronica was recorded not as an image but as a textile, a sudarium.

   • 2016, J. Douglas Kenyon, Missing Connections: Challenging the Consensus, page 154:

     Most interestingly, scientific analysis has shown that the stains of the sudarium match those on the head portion of the Shroud, a notion first suggested by Monsignor Ricci in 1965.

• sudary

From sūdor (“sweat”) +‎ -ārium (of purpose), via *sūdārius (relating to sweat).

sūdārium n (genitive sūdāriī); second declension

1. cloth for wiping off perspiration
2. handkerchief

Second declension.

• sudarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sudarium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sudarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sudarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sudarium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sudarium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin