different between tunica vs tunicle

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tunica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ty.ni?ka?/
• Hyphenation: tu?ni?ca

Noun

tunica f (plural tunica's or tunicae)

1. Roman tunic

Related terms

• tuniek

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tunica. Compare the inherited tonaca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu.ni.ka/

Noun

tunica f (plural tuniche)

1. (clothing, anatomy, botany) tunic

Derived terms

• tunicati
• tunicato

Anagrams

• canuti, cuntai, cutina, incuta

Latin

Etymology

Possibly of Central Semitic origin as Ancient Greek ????? (khit?n), with a metathesis. Compare Aramaic ???????????? (kitt?n?, “tunic”) / ??????? (kutt?n?, kott?n?, “tunic”), Hebrew ?????????? (kutt?n??, “tunic”); from the word for flax, Aramaic ?????????? (kitt?n?, “flax”) / ????? (kett?n?, “flax”), Akkadian ???? (GADA /kitû/, “flax”), Sumerian ???? (gada, “flax”), ultimately a substrate word.

However, Etruscan has been suggested as well.

Compare also borrowed textile terms of unknown origin in Mycenaean Greek ???????????? (to-mi-ka) and ???????????? (to-ni-ja), both descriptions of textile, as well as ???????????? (tu-na-no, “kind of textile”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu.ni.ka/, [?t??n?kä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.ni.ka/, [?t?u?nik?]

Noun

tunica f (genitive tunicae); first declension

1. tunic, an undergarment worn by both men and women
2. (figuratively) a coating, membrane, peel
3. (Medieval Latin) a military cloak

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• tunic?tus
• tunic?
• tunicopallium
• tunicula

Descendants

References

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

English

Etymology

Latin tunicula, diminutive of tunica (“tunic”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tju?n?k?l/

Noun

tunicle (plural tunicles)

1. (obsolete) A small tunic.
2. A vestment worn by an archdeacon.
   • 1845, In illustrating his views on the Popish tendency of these rubrics, the rev. gentleman particularly referred to the use of the alb, and cope, and tunicle, by the clergy in the discharge of their official duties. — The Times, 11 Jan 1845, p.5 col. D
3. (anatomy) A tunica; a membrane or membranous sheath of skin.

Anagrams

• cut line, cutline, linecut