different between cloak vs paludamentum

English

Alternative forms

• cloke (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English cloke, from Old Northern French cloque (“travelling cloak”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“travelers' cape, literally “a bell”, so called from the garment’s bell-like shape”), of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos-, ultimately imitative.

Doublet of clock.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?klo?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

cloak (plural cloaks)

1. A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
2. A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.

3. (figuratively)  That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.

   No man is esteemed any ways considerable for policy who wears religion otherwise than as a cloak.

4. (Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.

Derived terms

• cloak and dagger

Translations

See also

• burnoose, burnous, burnouse
• domino costume

Verb

cloak (third-person singular simple present cloaks, present participle cloaking, simple past and past participle cloaked)

1. (transitive) To cover as with a cloak.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, hide or conceal.
3. (science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.

   The ship cloaked before entering the enemy sector of space.

Derived terms

• cloaking device

Translations

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

paludamentum (plural paladumenta)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers.

Latin

Etymology

Cognate with pallium and palla.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa.lu?.da??men.tum/, [pä??u?d?ä??m?n?t????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.lu.da?men.tum/, [p?lud???m?n?t?um]

Noun

pal?d?mentum n (genitive pal?d?ment?); second declension

1. A military cloak or cape fastened at one shoulder.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Related terms

• pal?d?tus

Descendants

• English: paludamentum
• Italian: paludamento
• Spanish: paludamento

References

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