The corpus record — Latin

vestis

clothes

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Where it lives

Fragments 1 · 151.52/10k
Cento Nuptialis 3 · 21.99/10k
Fescinnina de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 18.25/10k
Thrasybulus 1 · 16.67/10k
Medicamina faciei femineae 1 · 16.31/10k
Alexander Severus 14 · 13.09/10k
De Pallio 4 · 11.67/10k
Pausanias 1 · 11.34/10k
Eunuchus 12 · 11.07/10k
Datames 2 · 10.98/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 2 · 9.79/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 5 · 9.76/10k

Densest 12 of 177 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vestis — de Vaan

vestis 'clothes' [f. i] (Andr.+) Derivatives: vestire 'to clothe, dress' (Pl.+)> vesfitus, -its 'dress, clothes' (P1.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. vestis, p. 685]

2. vestis — Lewis & Short

vestis, is, f.Sanscr. root vas-, to put on; Gr. e(s-, ves-; cf. e(/nnumi, e)sqh/s,

I the covering for the body, clothes, clothing, attire, vesture (syn. amictus; in class. prose only sing.).

I Lit.: lavere lacrimis vestem squalam et sordidam, Enn. ap. Non. 172, 20 (Trag. v. 370 Vahl.): mulierem cum auro et veste abducere, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 69: satin' haec me vestis deceat, these clothes, id. Most. 1, 3, 10: discidit vestem, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 41: lugubris, id. Heaut. 2, 3, 45; id. Eun. 3, 5, 24: ad vestem muliebrem conficiendam, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 46, § 103; id. Phil. 2, 27, 66; id. de Or. 1, 35, 161: sumptā veste virili, Hor. S. 1, 2, 16; 1, 2, 95; id. Ep. 1, 19, 38 al.—

2 Esp.: mutare vestem.

(a) To put on mourning garments, put on mourning (cf. sordidatus), Cic. Planc. 12, 29; id. Sest. 11, 26; Liv. 6, 20, 2; cf.: quid vestis mutatio'st? Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 4: cum dolorem suum vestis mutatione declarandum censuisset, Cic. Pis. 8, 17.—

(b) Also in gen., to change one's clothing, Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 61; Liv. 22, 1, 3; Sen. Ep. 18, 2; Vell. 2, 41, 2.—

3 In sing. collect., = vestes: multam pretiosam supellectilem vestemque missam Carthaginem, Liv. 21, 15, 2; so id. 26, 21, 8; 31, 17, 6; 39, 6, 7; 44, 26, 9.—

B Plur., clothes, garments (poet. and in postAug. prose): aurum vestibus illitum Mirata, Hor. C. 4, 9, 14: picturatae auri subtemine vestes, Verg. A. 3, 483: vestibus extentis, Juv. 12, 68: quod in vestes, margarita, gemmas fuerat erogaturus, Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 7; Quint. 6, 1, 30; 9, 4, 4; 11, 1, 31; Curt. 3, 13, 7; 5, 1, 10; Sen. Ep. 114, 11; id. Ben. 7, 9, 5; 7, 20, 2; Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 14; Suet. Tib. 36; id. Gram. 23; Tac. A. 2, 24; 3, 53; 12, 68. —

II Transf., of any sort of covering.

1 A carpet, curtain, tapestry (syn. stragulum): in plebeiā veste cubandum est, Lucr. 2, 36; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 56, § 146; Ov. M. 8, 659; Hor. S. 2, 4, 84; 2, 6, 103; 2, 6, 106 al. —

2 Poet.

(a) A veil, Stat. Th. 7, 244.—

(b) The skin of a serpent, Lucr. 4, 61; cf. id. 3, 614.—

(g) The beard as the covering of the chin, Lucr. 5, 673 (cf. vesticeps and investis).—

(d) A spider's web, Lucr. 3, 386.

3. vestis — Walde–Hofmann

vestis, -is f. „Kleid, Gewand“ (seit Liv. Andr., Naev., Enn., Plaut., rom.), vestéo, -ivi, -itum, -ire „bekleide“ (seit Plaut., rom.; vgl. vestitus, -üs m. „Kleidung“ seit Plaut, vestitor, -öris m. seit Script. hist. Aug., vestitörium, -ı n. Pap., vestitüra, -ae f. seit Cet, Fav., vestöriänus [color] Isid. orig. 19, 17, 14, vestriz CIL VI 9214 [Buecheler GL. 1,3], vestimentum, -i n. „Kleidung“ seit Pit. [-teulum ds. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vestis, p. 1683]

In the wild

veste Ovid, Epistulae 18.57
vestes Historia Augusta, Maximini Duo 22
vestem Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.2.61.5
vestibus Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.27
vestibus Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 7.212
veste Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.822

6 of 885 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. vestis (scan p. 685; entry #1971).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uestis (scan p. 753; entry #12574). Root candidates: *westwik-.
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vestis (scan pp. 1683-1684; entry #3229). Root candidates: *au-, *eu-, *yeteso-.

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