"paludamentum" meaning in English

See paludamentum in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: paludamenta [plural]
Etymology: Latin Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|-}} Latin Head templates: {{en-noun|paludamenta}} paludamentum (plural paludamenta)
  1. (historical, Ancient Rome) A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers, fastened at one shoulder. Tags: Ancient-Rome, historical Categories (topical): Ancient Rome, Clothing

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Latin",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "paludamenta",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "paludamenta"
      },
      "expansion": "paludamentum (plural paludamenta)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Ancient Rome",
          "orig": "en:Ancient Rome",
          "parents": [
            "Ancient Africa",
            "Ancient Europe",
            "Ancient history",
            "Ancient Near East",
            "History of Italy",
            "History of Africa",
            "History of Europe",
            "History",
            "Ancient Asia",
            "Italy",
            "Africa",
            "Europe",
            "All topics",
            "History of Asia",
            "Countries",
            "Countries in Europe",
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Fundamental",
            "Asia",
            "Polities",
            "Places",
            "Nature",
            "Names",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Clothing",
          "orig": "en:Clothing",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1847, “The Wellington Statue”, in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., London, page 523, column 2:",
          "text": "The horse was not in the least like a Greek horse (nor even a Trojan), and F.M. the Duke of Wellington was not represented with the ensis or short sword in his grasp, the chlamys flying from his shoulder, or the paludamentum, as more suitable for the cool of the English climate (totidem divisos orbe &c.), the kothornos on his leg, the galea slung at the crupper? no reins, and his naked nether-man, not (as in these precious models) seated on the bare back of the bull-necked, square-jawed, dray-limbed steed.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers, fastened at one shoulder."
      ],
      "id": "en-paludamentum-en-noun-z8oDRoja",
      "links": [
        [
          "Ancient Rome",
          "Ancient Rome"
        ],
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "cloak",
          "cloak"
        ],
        [
          "general",
          "general"
        ],
        [
          "officer",
          "officer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, Ancient Rome) A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers, fastened at one shoulder."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ancient-Rome",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "paludamentum"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Latin",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "paludamenta",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "paludamenta"
      },
      "expansion": "paludamentum (plural paludamenta)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Ancient Rome",
        "en:Clothing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1847, “The Wellington Statue”, in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., London, page 523, column 2:",
          "text": "The horse was not in the least like a Greek horse (nor even a Trojan), and F.M. the Duke of Wellington was not represented with the ensis or short sword in his grasp, the chlamys flying from his shoulder, or the paludamentum, as more suitable for the cool of the English climate (totidem divisos orbe &c.), the kothornos on his leg, the galea slung at the crupper? no reins, and his naked nether-man, not (as in these precious models) seated on the bare back of the bull-necked, square-jawed, dray-limbed steed.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers, fastened at one shoulder."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Ancient Rome",
          "Ancient Rome"
        ],
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "cloak",
          "cloak"
        ],
        [
          "general",
          "general"
        ],
        [
          "officer",
          "officer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, Ancient Rome) A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers, fastened at one shoulder."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ancient-Rome",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "paludamentum"
}

Download raw JSONL data for paludamentum meaning in English (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.