vestitus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of vestiō (“clothe, dress”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯esˈtiː.tus/, [u̯ɛs̠ˈt̪iːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vesˈti.tus/, [vesˈt̪iːt̪us]

Participle

vestītus (feminine vestīta, neuter vestītum); first/second-declension participle

1. (rare) clothed, clad, dressed, having been clothed.
2. (of vegetation) covered, blanketed, having been covered by vegetation.
3. (figuratively) having been made emperor

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	vestītus	vestīta	vestītum		vestītī	vestītae	vestīta
Genitive	vestītī	vestītae	vestītī		vestītōrum	vestītārum	vestītōrum
Dative	vestītō		vestītō		vestītīs
Accusative	vestītum	vestītam	vestītum		vestītōs	vestītās	vestīta
Ablative	vestītō	vestītā	vestītō		vestītīs
Vocative	vestīte	vestīta	vestītum		vestītī	vestītae	vestīta

Noun

vestītus m (genitive vestītūs); fourth declension

1. clothing, apparel, raiment, attire.
2. (of inanimate things) a cover, covering.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vestītus	vestītūs
Genitive	vestītūs	vestītuum
Dative	vestītuī	vestītibus
Accusative	vestītum	vestītūs
Ablative	vestītū	vestītibus
Vocative	vestītus	vestītūs

Synonyms

• vestis

Related terms

• vestiārium
• vestiārius
• vesticula
• vestifica
• vestificīna
• vestificus
• vestifluus
• vestīmentum
• vestiō
• vestiplica
• vestiplicus
• vestis
• vestispica
• vestītor

Descendants

• Asturian: vestidu
• Catalan: vestit
• Friulian: vistît
• Italian: vestito
• Occitan: vestit
• Portuguese: vestido
• Romagnol: vstid, vistìd
• Romansch: vestgì, vestgiu, vstieu
• Sicilian: vistitu
• Spanish: vestido
• Venetan: vestìdo, vestìo, vistìo

References

• “vestitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vestitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vestitus 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)
• vestitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • wooded hills: montes vestiti silvis
    
  • cast-off clothing: vestitus obsoletus, tritus
    
  • (ambiguous) to go into mourning: vestem mutare (opp. ad vestitum suum redire) (Planc. 12. 29)