petasus
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin petasus, and its source, Koine Greek πέτασος (pétasos), from Ancient Greek πεταννύναι (petannúnai, “to spread out”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpetasus (plural petasi)
- (historical) A broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by the Ancient Greeks and Romans, especially for travelling, and as often pictured to be worn by Hermes (or Mercury); (later also) the brimless winged cap worn by Hermes in later artistic depictions. [from 16th c.]
- 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXV, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 238:
- Their faces were shadowed beneath broad-brimmed, low-crowned petasoses.
Translations
editlow-crowned hat worn by the Ancient Greeks and Romans
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Latin
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek πέτασος (pétasos).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpe.ta.sus/, [ˈpɛt̪äs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpe.ta.sus/, [ˈpɛːt̪äs̬us]
Noun
editpetasus m (genitive petasī); second declension
- a travelling hat or cap with a broad brim
- (architecture) something in the shape of a cap, placed on a building; a cap, cupola
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | petasus | petasī |
Genitive | petasī | petasōrum |
Dative | petasō | petasīs |
Accusative | petasum | petasōs |
Ablative | petasō | petasīs |
Vocative | petase | petasī |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “petasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- petasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “petasus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “petasus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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