tunic
A garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths…A garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles.
» I like to wear a tunic.
Ich trage gerne eine Tunika.
Meaning
3 sensesA garment worn over the torso, with or without sleeves, and of various lengths reaching from the hips to the ankles.
Tunika
туни́каtuníka, блузкаbluzka, жакетžaket
Any covering, such as seed coat or the organ that covers a membrane.
an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue
Synonym of gymslip.
Examples
19 sentencesI like to wear a tunic.
deIch trage gerne eine Tunika.
The tunic has a raw cut hem.
Dmitri was dressed in a white tunic.
Kalman wears a tunic in the house.
Ziri showed up to school wearing a tunic.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
Borrowed from Middle French tunique, from Latin tunica, possibly from Semitic (compare AraBorrowed from Middle French tunique, from Latin tunica, possibly from Semitic (compare Aramaic [script needed] (kittuna), Hebrew כותנת (kuttoneth, “coat”), English chiton); or from Etruscan. Existed in Old English as tunece; unknown if that term was lost and then reborrowed later. Doublet of tunica.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
plural: tunicsSynonyms
4 synonyms- an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue:tunicaadventitia