tunica

Borrowed from Latin tunica.

• IPA^(key): /ˈty.niˌkaː/
• Hyphenation: tu‧ni‧ca

tunica f (plural tunica's or tunicae)

1. Roman tunic

• tuniek

tunica

1. tunic

Borrowed from Latin tunica. Compare the inherited tonaca.

tunica f (plural tuniche)

1. (clothing, anatomy, botany) tunic

• tunicati
• tunicato

• canuti, cuntai, cutina, incuta

Possibly of Central Semitic origin as Ancient Greek χῐτών (khitṓn), with a metathesis.[1] Compare Aramaic כִּיתּוּנָא‎ (kittōnā, “tunic”) /‎ ܟܘܬܝܢܐ‎ (kuttīnā, kottīnā, “tunic”), Hebrew כֻּתֹּנֶת‎ (kuttṓnĕṯ, “tunic”); from the word for flax, Aramaic כּיתָּנָא‎ (kittānā, “flax”) /‎ ܟܬܢܐ‎ (kettānā, “flax”), Akkadian 𒃰 (GADA /kitû/, “flax”), Sumerian 𒃰 (gada, “flax”), ultimately a substrate word.

However Etruscan has been suggested as well.[2]

Compare also borrowed textile terms of unknown origin in Mycenaean Greek [script needed] (to-mi-ka) and [script needed] (to-ni-ja), both descriptions of textile, as well as [script needed] (tu-na-no, “kind of textile”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ni.ka/, [ˈtʊ.nɪ.ka]

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tunica f (genitive tunicae); first declension

1. tunic, an undergarment worn by both men and women
2. (figuratively) a coating, membrane, peel

First declension.

• tunicātus
• tunicō
• tunicopallium
• tunicula

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