chemise

From French chemise, from Old French chemise (whence Old English ċemes, cemes (“shirt”)), from Late Latin camisa, camisia (“shirt, undergarment, nightgown”), from Frankish *chamithia, from Proto-Germanic *hamiþiją (“clothes, shirt, skirt”) (whence also Old English hemeþe), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱam- (“cover, clothes”).

Cognate with Old High German hemidi (“shirt”) (German Hemd), Old English hemeþe (“shirt”), ham (“undergarment”), hama (“covering, dress, garment”). See also shimmy, from a dialectal variant. More at hame.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃəˈmiːz/

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chemise (plural chemises)

1. (historical) A loose shirtlike undergarment, especially for women.
2. A short nightdress, or similar piece of lingerie.
3. A woman's dress that fits loosely; a chemise dress.
4. A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.

• chemise cagoule
• chemisette

• camis
• shimmy

• schemie

• IPA^(key): /ʃə.miz/
• Homophones: chemisent, chemises

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From Old French chemise, from Late Latin camisia, from Gaulish camisia, possibly ultimately from a Germanic reflex of Proto-Germanic *hamiþiją.

chemise f (plural chemises)

1. shirt
2. folder (office supplies)
3. chemise (wall-enforcing earthwork)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chemise

1. inflection of chemiser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “chemise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cemise

From Late Latin camisia, from Transalpine Gaulish, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *hamiþī, from Proto-Germanic *hamiþiją.

chemise f (oblique plural chemises, nominative singular chemise, nominative plural chemises)

1. shirt; overshirt

• 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