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6-letter words (3 found)

ANICUT,NAUTIC,TUNICA,

5-letter words (9 found)

ACTIN,ANTIC,CUNIT,CUTIN,INCUT,TUINA,TUNIC,UNCIA,UNICA,

4-letter words (15 found)

AITU,ANTI,AUNT,CAIN,CANT,CUIT,CUNT,TAIN,TIAN,TINA,TUAN,TUNA,UNAI,UNCI,UNIT,

3-letter words (22 found)

ACT,AIN,AIT,ANI,ANT,CAN,CAT,CIT,CUT,ITA,NAT,NIT,NUT,TAI,TAN,TAU,TIC,TIN,TUI,TUN,UNI,UTA,

2-letter words (11 found)

AI,AN,AT,IN,IT,NA,NU,TA,TI,UN,UT,

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Definitions and meaning of tunica

tunica

Etymology

From Latin tunica.

Noun

tunica (plural tunicae or tunicas)

  1. Synonym of tunic (“garment”)
  2. Synonym of tunic (“covering”)

Derived terms

  • ectotunica
  • endotunica

See also

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tunica.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈty.niˌkaː/
  • Hyphenation: tu‧ni‧ca

Noun

tunica f (plural tunica's or tunicae)

  1. Roman tunic

Related terms

  • tuniek

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tunica. Compare the inherited tonaca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtu.ni.ka/
  • Rhymes: -unika
  • Hyphenation: tù‧ni‧ca

Noun

tunica f (plural tuniche)

  1. (clothing, anatomy, botany) tunic

Derived terms

  • tunicati
  • tunicato

Anagrams

  • canuti, cuntai, cutina, incuta, taicun, tucani

Latin

Etymology

Possibly of Central Semitic origin as Ancient Greek χῐτών (khitṓn), with a metathesis. Compare Aramaic כִּיתּוּנָא (kittōnā, “tunic”) / ܟܘܬܝܢܐ (kuttīnā, kottīnā, “tunic”), Hebrew כֻּתֹּנֶת (kuttṓnĕṯ, “tunic”); from the word for flax, Aramaic כּיתָּנָא (kittānā, “flax”) / ܟܬܢܐ (kettānā, “flax”), Akkadian 𒃰 (kitûm, “flax”), Sumerian 𒃰 (gada, “flax”), ultimately a substrate word.

However, Etruscan has been suggested as well.

Compare also borrowed textile terms of unknown origin in Mycenaean Greek 𐀵𐀖𐀏 (to-mi-ka) and 𐀵𐀛𐀊 (to-ni-ja), both descriptions of textile, as well as 𐀶𐀙𐀜 (tu-na-no, “kind of textile”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.ni.ka/, [ˈt̪ʊnɪkä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.ni.ka/, [ˈt̪uːnikä]

Noun

tunica f (genitive tunicae); first declension

  1. tunic, an undergarment worn by both men and women
  2. (figuratively) a coating, membrane, peel
  3. (Medieval Latin) a military cloak

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • tunicātus
  • tunicō
  • tunicopallium
  • tunicula

Descendants

Verb

tunicā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of tunicō

References

  • “tunica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tunica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tunica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • tunica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “tunica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “tunica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Notes:

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