camisia

English

Etymology

From Latin camisia.

Noun

camisia (plural camisias or camisiae)

1. (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

Borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *hamiþi (“shirt”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱem- (“cover, clothes”). First attested in the writings of Jerome.^[1]

Noun

camisia f (genitive camisiae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. shirt
2. nightgown
3. alb

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: cămeașă
  • Romanian: cămașă
• Franco-Provençal: chemise
• Gallo-Italic
  • Emilian: camîṡa
  • Ligurian: camîxa
  • Lombard: 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, chemes, chamisae
  • Champenois: cheminge, cheminze
  • Gallo: chminzz
  • French: chemise
    • Antillean Creole: chimiz
    • Guianese Creole: chimiz
    • Karipúna Creole French: ximiz
    • Louisiana Creole: chimiz, chimij, chmiz, chimiy, chmij
    • Seychellois Creole: simiz, cemiz
    • → English: chemise
    • → Ladino: shemiz
    • → Neapolitan: scemisse
    • → Scots: chemeis
    • → Vietnamese: sơ-mi
    • → Yemeni Arabic: شميز
  • 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
    • Mirandese: camisa
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: camisa
    • Fala: camisa, camisha (Lagarteiru, Mañegu)
    • Galician: camisa
    • Portuguese: camisa (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: camisa
    • Ladino: kamiza
    • Spanish: camisa (see there for further descendants)
• → Albanian: këmishë
• → Arabic: قَمِيص (qamīṣ) (see there for further descendants)
• → Coptic: ⲕⲁⲙⲓⲥ (kamis)
• → Old Czech: komžě
  • → Polish: komża
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kamisi (see there for further descendants)
• → Byzantine Greek: καμίσιον (kamísion)
  • ⇒ Greek: πουκάμισο (poukámiso)
  • → Classical Syriac: ܩܡܝܨܬܐ (qamīṣtāʾ) (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Irish: caimse
  • Irish: caimse
  • Manx: caimis

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

1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “camĭsa”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 142