different between chemisette vs chemise

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chemisette.

Noun

chemisette (plural chemisettes)

1. An item of women's clothing, popular in the 1860s and 1870s, worn to fill in the front and neckline of any garment.
   • Kokoro by Natsume Soseki, 1914, English by Edwin McClellen, 1968

     Of the items I was asked to buy, the one that gave me most trouble was a chemisette.

French

Etymology

chemise +? -ette

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.mi.z?t/

Noun

chemisette f (plural chemisettes)

1. short-sleeved shirt/blouse

Descendants

• ? English: chemisette

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From French chemise, from Old French chemise (whence Old English ?emes, cemes (“shirt”)), from Late Latin camisa, camisia (“shirt, undergarment, nightgown”), from Frankish *chamithia, from Proto-Germanic *hamiþij? (“clothes, shirt, skirt”) (whence also Old English hemeþe), from Proto-Indo-European *?am- (“cover, clothes”). Cognate with Old High German hemidi (“shirt”) (German Hemd), Old English hemeþe (“shirt”), ham (“undergarment”), hama (“covering, dress, garment”). See also shimmy, from a dialectal variant. More at hame.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???mi?z/

Noun

chemise (plural chemises)

1. (historical) A loose shirtlike undergarment, especially for women.
2. A short nightdress, or similar piece of lingerie.
3. A woman's dress that fits loosely; a chemise dress.
4. A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.

Derived terms

• chemisette

Related terms

• camis
• shimmy

Translations

Anagrams

• schemie

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.miz/
• Homophones: chemisent, chemises

Etymology 1

From Old French chemise, from Late Latin camisia, from Gaulish camisia, possibly ultimately from a Germanic reflex of Proto-Germanic *hamiþij?.

Noun

chemise f (plural chemises)

1. shirt
2. folder (office supplies)
3. chemise (wall-enforcing earthwork)

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

chemise

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of chemiser
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of chemiser
3. second-person singular imperative of chemiser

Further reading

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• cemise

Etymology

From Late Latin camisia, from Transalpine Gaulish, of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *hamiþij?.

Noun

chemise f (oblique plural chemises, nominative singular chemise, nominative plural chemises)

1. shirt; overshirt

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: chemés
  • ? Old English: ?emes, cemes (late)
    • Middle English: kemes
• Gallo: chminzz
• French: chemise (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: queminse (continental Normandy), qu'minse, ch'minse (Guernsey), c'mînse (Jersey)
• Walloon: tchimijhe