vestimentum

vestīre (“clothe”) +‎ -mentum

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯es.tiːˈmen.tum/, [u̯ɛs̠t̪iːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ves.tiˈmen.tum/, [vest̪iˈmɛn̪t̪um]

vestīmentum n (genitive vestīmentī); second declension

1. (in the singular) garment, robe, article of clothing
2. (in the plural) clothes, clothing, garments

   Synonym: coopertūra

   vestīmenta mūtāre ― to change one's clothes

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.6.27:

     numquid abscondere potest homō ignem in sinū suō ut vestīmenta illīus nōn ārdeant

     Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn? (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “vestimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vestimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vestimentum 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)
• vestimentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to change one's clothes (and shoes): vestimenta (et calceos) mutare