Latin/Clothing Lesson 2

Salvēte omnēs! Welcome back to Latin for Wikiversity. If you would like to catch up, you can find past lessons in the directory, a classified vocabulary list, and Memrise courses at the links on the right.

Last lesson we learned the vocabulary for clothing, as the Ancient Romans knew it. Today we’ll look at the modern equivalents, or as close as we can come to them. There are many instances where the modern classicist has to make a reasonable conjecture, and classicists are an opinionated bunch. We're not looking to start any fights, and where possible we have equivalent constructions listed even though the course may prefer one over the other. We’re especially indebted to Walter Redmond’s glossarium, and the Vatican lexicon of recent Latin.

Practice
Since this lesson deals with modern Latin, it will be a work in progress. If you have a suggestion, particularly for concepts such as “tie” or “woman’s purse”, let us know in a comment on the talk page. Next lesson will probably be about the 4th declension nouns, since we’ve been using them in various vocabulary lists without really teaching them as a category.

Valē et habē bonam fortūnam!