different between camis vs tamis

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæmiz/

Noun

camis

1. plural of cami

Etymology 2

See chemise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæm?s/

Alternative forms

• camese
• camiso
• camus

Noun

camis (plural camises)

1. (obsolete) A light, loose dress or robe.

Anagrams

• Masci, Samic, aMCIs, iMacs, icasm, micas, scima

Latin

Noun

c?m?s

1. dative/ablative plural of c?mus

Noun

cam?s

1. dative/ablative plural of cama

English

Alternative forms

• tammy

Etymology

Borrowed from French tamis, from Middle French tamis, from Old French tamis, from Medieval Latin tamisium, from Frankish *tamis, *tamusi, from Proto-Germanic *tamus?? (“sieve; strainer; sile”). Cognate with Old High German zemis (dialectal German Zims), Dutch teems (“sieve”), West Frisian teams, tiems, German Low German Teemse, Teems, Old English temes, Old English temesian (“to sieve; sift”). Doublet of temse.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: tammy

Noun

tamis (countable and uncountable, plural tamises)

1. A culinary strainer, originally made from worsted cloth
2. The cloth itself; tammy.

Coordinate terms

• food mill
• chinois

Related terms

• tammy

Further reading

• tamis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• amits, maist

French

Etymology

From Late Latin tamisium, itself from Gaulish tamesium. Compare regional Italian tamiso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.mi/
• Hyphenation: ta?mis

Noun

tamis m (plural tamis)

1. sieve, riddle

2. screen (mesh for filtering)

Derived terms

• tamiser

Descendants

• ? English: tamis
• ? Spanish: tamiz

Further reading

• “tamis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• tam-is (obsolete, now chiefly Batangas)

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taq(?)mis.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta?mís
• IPA^(key): /ta?mis/, [t??mis]

Noun

tamís

1. sweetness

Derived terms

• matamis