English

Noun

chlamys ‎(plural chlamydes)

1. (historical) A short cloak caught up on the shoulder, worn by hunters, soldiers, and horsemen in Ancient Greece.
   • 1844, Walter Savage Landor, ‘Æsop and Rhosope’, Imaginary Conversations:

     He unfolded the chlamys, stretched it out with both hands before me, and then cast it over my shoulders.

   • 1977, Mary Carol Sturgeon, Sculpture: the Reliefs from the Theater, p. 38:

     A male god stands in three-quarter view to right, wearing a chlamys fastened at his right shoulder with a round clasp.

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Latin

Alternative forms

• clamis, clamys, chlamis, chlamyda

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek χλᾰμῠ́ς ‎(khlamús).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰla.mys/, [ˈkʰɫa.mʏs]

Noun

chlamys f ‎(genitive chlamydos or chlamydis); third declension

1. chlamys (a broad, woollen upper garment worn in Greece, sometimes purple, and inwrought with gold, worn especially by distinguished military characters, a Grecian military cloak, a state mantle; hence also, the cloak of Pallas; and sometimes also worn by persons not engaged in war, by, e.g., Mercury, Dido, Agrippina, children, actors, the chorus in tragedy, etc.)

Declension

Third declension, Greek type.

Third declension.

Synonyms

• (chlamys: military cloak): palūdāmentum (the Roman approximate equivalent)

References

• chlămys in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chlamys in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CHLAMYS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “chlămy̆s”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 301/2.
• chlamys in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• chlamys in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “chlamys” on page 310/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)