amictus
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Searchable Lemmata: amictus (L).
Alternate Forms: amicta, amita, amitum, ameta, (?) amisia.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Garment;
amice (a kerchief or shoulder-wrap).(ante 1160 - circa 1520)
1. Amictus corporis et risus dentium et ingressus id est incessus hominis enuntiant de illo scrud lichaman & hlehter toþa & ingang mannes cyþaþ be him.
[DOE LibSc (1793 (61.9))]
3. Postmodum se induit sacris uestibus, [quarum] primus dicitur amictus, qui caput tegit, dictus ab amiciendo, id est cooperiendo, & significat fidem, que ante omnia debet apponi ad tegendum caput & intellectus, id est ad captiuandum, ne racione naturali in hiis, que sunt fidei, i[nn]itatur.
[MED Spec.Chr.(1) (181,11-16)]
Use: Ecclesiastical Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
2(n.)
Garment;
garment.
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
Etymological Evidence:
Speculative, Classical Latin; originally psp. of the verb amicire 'to throw around, wrap', then used substantively to mean 'fashion, the way clothing is placed on a person' and then 'garment, wrapping'. Compare Medieval Latin almucia (Latham, p. 16). This word is the source of AF amice and its derivatives (see entry at amice).
WF:
Etym Cog: amice, amice, amit, amit.
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