subcinctorium
, sub + cincture.
Searchable Lemmata: subcinctorium (L).
Alternate Forms: subcintorium, succinctorium, succinctoria, succintoria.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1a(n.)
Garment;
the term originally referred to garments which are worn around the neck and passed below the arms to be fastened. In the Classical period can refer to aprons or similar. More loosely understood to mean 'under-girdle', and hence also for girdles and breech-cloths worn on the lower part of the body. Isidore uses the term as equivalent to brail, redimiculum and perizoma (qqv.). In the medieval period, variously equated with AF brael (see brail) and ME under-girdle.(ante 800 - circa 1480 ?)
1. Redimiculum est quod subcinctorium sive bracile nuncupamus, quod descendens per cervicem et a lateribus colli divisum, utrumque alarum sinus ambit atque hinc inde subcingit, ut constringens latitudinem vestiat corpus, contrahat atque coniungendo conponat. Hunc vulgo brachilem, quasi brachialem, dicunt, quamvis nunc non brachiorum, sed renum sit cingulum. Subcinctorium autem vocatum quod, ut dictum est, sub brachiis ductum alarum sinum ambit atque hinc inde subcingit.
[DOE ISID. Etym. (5)]
3. succintoria : braels (T) / baltheos : baudrees (AL) bauderikis (D) badrés (T)
[AND TLL (2,51,17)]
Sex: Male Ceremonial: No
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1b(n.)
Garment;
specifically, the loincloths worn by Adam and Eve.(ante 1100)
1. Vestis antiquissima hominum fuit perizomatum, id est subcinctorium, quo tantum genitalia conteguntur. Hoc primum primi mortales e foliis arborum sibi fecerunt, quoniam post praevaricationem erubescentes pudenda velarunt. Cuius usum quaedam barbarae gentes, dum sint nudae, usque hodie tenent. Haec et campestria nuncupantur, pro eo quod eisdem iuvenes, qui nudi exercentur in campo, pudenda operiunt.
[DOE ISID. Etym. (19,22,5)]
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, Classical Latin (often in the assimilated form succinctorium), from sub 'under' + cinctorium (see cincture.) 'girdle, belt'.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog: undergaderer, undergirdel, undergirden.
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