different between peplos vs chlamys

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (péplos).

Noun

peplos (plural peploi or peploses)

1. (historical) An Ancient Greek garment, worn by women, formed of a tubular piece of cloth, which is folded back upon itself halfway down, until the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist.
   • 1990, David Martin Halperin, John J. Winkler, Froma I. Zeitlin, eds, Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World

     An obvious question arises: what on earth can Herakles do with a peplos? Throughout Greek tradition, the peplos ("piece of cloth, veil, dress") is a woman's garment, and sometimes a barbarian's garment—no contradiction, as far as a Greek is concerned.

Translations

See also

• peplum
• palla
• exomis
• himation
• chlamys
• chiton

Anagrams

• Leppos, Pelops

Spanish

Noun

peplos m pl

1. plural of peplo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (khlamús).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?klæm?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?klam?s/

Noun

chlamys (plural chlamyses or chlamydes)

1. (historical) A short poncho-like cloak caught up on the shoulder, worn by hunters, soldiers, and horsemen in Ancient Greece.
   • 1844, Walter Savage Landor, ‘Æsop and Rhosope’, Imaginary Conversations:

     He unfolded the chlamys, stretched it out with both hands before me, and then cast it over my shoulders.

   • 1977, Mary Carol Sturgeon, Sculpture: the Reliefs from the Theater, p. 38:

     A male god stands in three-quarter view to right, wearing a chlamys fastened at his right shoulder with a round clasp.

Translations

See also

Further reading

• chlamys on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Alternative forms

• clamis, clamys, chlamis, chlamyda

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ??????? (khlamús).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?k?la.mys/, [?k???äm?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kla.mis/, [?kl??mis]

Noun

chlamys f (genitive chlamydos or chlamydis); third declension

1. chlamys (a broad, woollen upper garment worn in Greece, sometimes purple, and inwrought with gold, worn especially by distinguished military characters, a Grecian military cloak, a state mantle; hence also, the cloak of Pallas; and sometimes also worn by persons not engaged in war, by, e.g., Mercury, Dido, Agrippina, children, actors, the chorus in tragedy, etc.)

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant or non-Greek-type).

¹In poetry.

Synonyms

• (chlamys: military cloak): pal?d?mentum (the Roman approximate equivalent)

References

• chl?mys in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chlamys in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• chlamys in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• chl?my?s in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 301/2
• chlamys in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• chlamys in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “chlamys” on page 310/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)