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Forms: tunica (data provider: perseus), tunicae (data provider: perseus), tunicaeque (data provider: perseus), tunicam (data provider: perseus), tunicamque (data provider: perseus), tunicaque (data provider: perseus), tunicarum (data provider: perseus), tunicas (data provider: perseus), tunicasque (data provider: perseus), tunicasve (data provider: perseus), tunicis (data provider: perseus), tunicisque (data provider: perseus), tunicisve (data provider: perseus)
Dictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- tŭnĭca, ae, f. [perh. for tog-nica, from tego], an under-garment of the Romans worn by both sexes, a tunic. I. Lit., Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 46; 5, 2, 60; id. Mil. 3, 1, 93; 5, 30; id. Pers. 1, 3, 75; Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 60; id. de Or. 2, 47, 195; Hor. S. 1, 2, 132; id. Ep. 1, 1, 96; 1, 18, 33.—A tunic with long sleeves was thought effeminate, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 48; Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 22; Suet. Calig. 52; Gell. 7, 12, 4:
et tunicae manicas habent
, Verg. A. 9, 616: manicata
, Curt. 3, 3, 13; cf. Plin. 8, 48, 74, 194: tunicas mutare cottidie
, Hier. Ep. 22, 32.—Prov.: tunica propior pallio est, my tunic is nearer than my cloak (like the Engl. near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin), Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 30.—II. Transf., a coating, skin, tegument, membrane, husk, peel, etc., = velamentum, membrana: se medio trudunt de cortice gemmae Et tenues rumpunt tunicas
, Verg. G. 2, 75: cum teretes ponunt tunicas aestate cicadae
, Lucr. 4, 58; so, oculorum
, Cels. 7, 7, 14; Plin. 11, 37, 54, 147: boletorum
, id. 22, 22, 46, 93: corticis
, id. 24, 3, 3, 7; cf.: inter corticem ac lignum tenues tunicae multiplici membranā
, id. 16, 14, 25, 65; 16, 36, 65, 163.
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