Friday, January 3, 2020

Latin Words for Clothing with English Translation

English has a lot of  words of Latin origin. In fact,  60  percent  of the English language comes from Latin. Some of the Latin words (nouns) for clothing are as follows: amictus, -us m. mantle, cloakanulus, -i m. a finger-ringarmilla, -ae f. a braceletbalteus, -i m. beltbracae, -arum f. pl. breechescalceus, -i m. a shoecaliga, -ae f. a boot for a soldiercingulus, - i m. a beltcrepida, -ae f. a sandallana, -ae f. woollinteum, -i n. linen (it also means napkin)ornamentum, - i n. an ornamentpaenula, -ae f. traveling cloak, rain cloakpalla, -ae f. robepallium, -i n. cloakpannus, -i m. a clothpileus/pilleus, -i m. a hatstola, -ae f. a stoletoga, -ae f. togatorques, -is f. a neck chaintrabea, -ae f. a robe of statetunica, -ae f. tunicvelum, -i n. a veilvestimentum, -i n. a garmentvestis, -is f. a dressvestitus, -us m. clothingvitta, -ae f. a headband

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