# camisia
## English
### Etymology

From Latin camisia.

### Noun

camisia (plural camisias or camisiae)
* (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.

### Noun

camisia f (genitive camisiae); first declension (Late Latin)
* shirt
* nightgown
* 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
*** Haitian Creole: chemiz
*** 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
* Venetan: 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
* → Translingual: Camisia

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