Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek κολόβιον (kolóbion).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

colobium n (genitive colobiī or colobī); second declension

  1. An undergarment with short sleeves

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative colobium colobia
Genitive colobiī
colobī1
colobiōrum
Dative colobiō colobiīs
Accusative colobium colobia
Ablative colobiō colobiīs
Vocative colobium colobia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References edit

  • colobium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • colobium 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)
  • colobium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • colobium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • colobium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin