different between mandilion vs mandil

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French mandillon (from 1572), from mandille + -on (“forming diminutives of things”); compare Italian mandiglione (1598).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?n?d?l??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mæn?d?li.?n/, /-j?n/
• Homophone: mandylion
• Rhymes: -?lj?n
• Hyphenation: man?di?li?on

Noun

mandilion (plural mandilions)

1. A loose outer garment resembling a cassock or coat, often sleeveless, worn by soldiers over armour or by menservants as a type of overcoat.
   • 1609, T. Deckar (Thomas Dekker), The Guls Horne-booke, London: Imprinted at London [by Nicholas Okes] for R. S[ergier?]; republished as T. Decker; J[ohn] N[ott], The Gull's Hornbook: Stultorum plena sunt omnia. Al savio mezza parola basta, Bristol: Reprinted for J. M. Gutch and sold in London by R. Baldwin, and R. Triphook, 1812, OCLC 921008261, pages 68–69:

     You see likewise, that the lion, being the king of beasts; the horse, being the lustiest creature; the unicorn, whose horn is worth half a city; all these go with no more clothes on their backs, than what nature hath bestowed upon them: but your baboons, and your jackanapes, being the scum and rascality of all the hedge-creepers, they go in jerkins and mandilions.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mandilion.

See also

• overcoat
• surcoat

Etymology 2

See mandylion.

Noun

mandilion (plural mandilions)

1. Alternative form of mandylion.

References

English

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (mand?l, “sash; turban cloth; handkerchief”), already borrowed before Islam from Byzantine Greek ????????? (mandílion), ????????? (mantílion), ??????? (mand?l?, “cloth; hand towel; handkerchief; tablecloth”) (the last word found in an Egyptian papyrus dated to 481 AD), from Latin mant?lium, mant?le (“hand towel, napkin”), probably from manus (“hand”) + tergere (“to rub, wipe, wipe off; to clean”). Compare French mendil (“turban, turban cloth”) (1659; translating German Mendil from a 1656 source).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?mænd?l/
• Hyphenation: man?dil

Noun

mandil (plural mandils)

1. (chiefly Persia, historical) A turban; cloth used to make a turban.

Related terms

• mandilla
• mandylion
• mantilla

References

Anagrams

• lamnid

Old French

Alternative forms

• mendil
• mandilh

Noun

mandil m (oblique plural mandiz or mandilz, nominative singular mandiz or mandilz, nominative plural mandil)

1. Small coat

Spanish

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (mand?l), from Byzantine Greek ????????? (mandílion), ????????? (mantílion), ??????? (mand?l?, “cloth, hand towel, handkerchief, tablecloth”), from Latin mant?lium, mant?le, hence doublet of mantel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man?dil/, [mãn??d?il]
• Rhymes: -il

Noun

mandil m (plural mandiles)

1. apron

   Synonym: delantal

Derived terms

• mandilón