cyclas
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare ciclatoun.
Noun edit
cyclas
- A long gown or surcoat, cut off in front, worn in the Middle Ages, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold.
- 1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel
- The old tunic, overtunic and cyclas were too sad and simple for the new fashions, so now strange and brilliant cotehardies, pourpoints, courtepies, paltocks, hanselines and many other wondrous garments, particoloured or diapered, with with looped, embroidered or escalloped edges, flamed and glittered round the King.
- 1995, Henry William Carless Davis, Francis Pierrepont Barnard, Medieval England:
- The effigy of Sir John de Lyons (1346) at Warkworth, in Northamptonshire, shows slight further changes; a gambeson, a sleeved haketon, and a cyclas are worn.
- 1905-06, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel
- A rich stuff from which such gowns were made.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cyclas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek κυκλάς (kuklás).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈky.klas/, [ˈkʏkɫ̪äs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.klas/, [ˈt͡ʃiːkläs]
Noun edit
cyclas f (genitive cyclatis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cyclas | cyclatēs |
Genitive | cyclatis | cyclatum |
Dative | cyclatī | cyclatibus |
Accusative | cyclatem | cyclatēs |
Ablative | cyclate | cyclatibus |
Vocative | cyclas | cyclatēs |
References edit
- “cyclas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cyclas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers