camisia

English

Etymology

Noun

camisia (plural camisias or camisiae)

(historical) An ancient kind of shirt or nightgown.
- 2003, Tom Tierney, Historic Costume: From Ancient Times to the Renaissance, page 58:
  The father and son depicted here wear short linen camisias. The boy's camisia was probably his “dress-up” wear; the vertical stripe appears on matching stockings. The father's light-colored camisia is worn for work, doubling as an undergarment when he dresses up in an over-tunica.

Latin

Etymology

From Gaulish camisia, perhaps originally loaned from a Germanic language, given Proto-Germanic *hamiþiją (“clothes, shirt, skirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱam- (“cover, clothes”).

Possibly cognate with Old High German hemidi (“shirt”) (German Hemd), Old English hemeþe (“shirt”), ham (“undergarment”), hama (“covering, dress, garment”). More at hame.

Noun

camisia f (genitive camisiae); first declension

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	camisia	camisiae
Genitive	camisiae	camisiārum
Dative	camisiae	camisiīs
Accusative	camisiam	camisiās
Ablative	camisiā	camisiīs
Vocative	camisia	camisiae

Descendants

Eastern Romance
- Aromanian: cãmeashã, cãmeashi, cãmeashe, cãmiashe
- Megleno-Romanian: cămeáșă
- Romanian: cămașă
Franco-Provençal: chemise
Gallo-Italic
- Emilian: camîṡa
- Ligurian: camîxa
- Lombard: camiisa, camisa
- Piedmontese: camisa
- Romagnol: camisa
Italo-Dalmatian
- Corsican: camisgia, camigia, camicia
- Dalmatian: camaisa
- Italian: camicia
- Neapolitan: càmmese
  Tarantino: cammisa
- Sicilian: cammisa (or via Spanish camisa)
Old French: chemise, cemise
- Anglo-Norman: chemés
  - → Old English: ċemes, 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
Old Occitan:
- Occitan: camisa, chamisa
- Old Catalan: camisa
  - Catalan: camisa
Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: cjamese
- Ladin: ciameija
- Romansch: chamischa
Sabir: camicia
Sardinian: camigia, camisa
Venetian: camixa
West Iberian
- Extremaduran: camisa
- Navarro-Aragonese:
  - Aragonese: camisa
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: camisa
  - Leonese: camisa
- Old Galician-Portuguese: camisa
  - Fala: camisa
  - Galician: camisa
  - Portuguese: camisa (see there for further descendants)
- Old Spanish: camisa
  - Ladino: kamiza
  - Spanish: camisa
    - → Chavacano: kamisa
    - → Classical Nahuatl: camīxah, camīxahtli
    - → Jakaltek: camiẍe
    - → Papiamentu: camisa
    - → Tagalog: kamisa
    - → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: camixajtli̱
→ Albanian: këmishë
→ Arabic: قَمِيص‎ (qamīṣ) (see there for further descendants)
→ Coptic: ⲕⲁⲙⲓⲥⲓ (kamisi)
→ Byzantine Greek: καμίσιον (kamísion)
- → Classical Syriac: ܩܡܝܨܬܐ‎ (qamīṣtāʾ) (see there for further descendants)

References

“camisia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
camisia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
“camisia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“camisia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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